sandip uncle, i just saw this on the faq of gmane. it lists a few problems with gmane.
i hope this does not open a khan of worms on security, privacy, i-told-you-so, and other blah blah.
Umm. The newsgroup has been setup: newsgroup: gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi news server: news.gmane.org
I had setup encryption for all email addresses (headers and body). I also did not import the archives yet, but since this is already being archived on Suresh's machine and mail-archive, there is no need.
BTW, This message was posted on the newsgroup.
For people concerned about spam, I am quoting from http://gmane.org/tmda.php
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For people who really don't want to expose their email addresses, Gmane implements an address encryption scheme, coupled with a challenge/response mail delivery scheme.
Encryption
A list administrator may request that the entire list be encrypted. Each individual user may also do so by putting a X-Archive: encrypt header into their messages.
If either of these things have been done, Gmane will encrypt all addresses in the header, as well as anything that looks like an address in the body of the message.
An address that looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] will become [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a real, functional mail address, and mail sent to that address will be delivered.
While the X-Archive header makes all addresses in your message be encrypted, if somebody on the mailing list responds to your message, it's still likely that your real email address will be included in the follow-up. It's probably more useful to switch encryption on for the entire list.
Mail Delivery
Any mail sent to an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] will undergo a challenge/response scheme courtesy of TMDA. After the sender has verified that she exists, the address will be decrypted, and the message will be forwarded to the real recipient.
In fact, feel free to use your public.gmane.org address anywhere. While it's difficult for me to promise that your encrypted address will work forever, I have no plans for limiting the use of these addresses.
No logs will be kept of mail in transit beyond the normal Exim mail log, and no mail passing through the system will be read by anybody. Undelivered mail will be removed after one week.
Not So Hard Encryption
While a real encryption algorithm is used, it will probably be possible to find the encryption key over time, since the number of encrypted/unencrypted pairs will be somewhat huge after a while. That's not the point -- the point is simply to make it somewhat harder for address gathering robots to get to the mail addresses.
[ENDS]
- Sandip
-- Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.sandipb.net sandip at puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://www.puroga.com
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