Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> The mailing list are a public forum.
> 
> 
> 
> Let that sink in for a moment.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As such, Helge should have been more careful, and not (presumably) put
> an email address in the Subject: header of an email sent to a mailing
> list.  I can't seem to find the email in question.  When was it sent? 
> What was the Message-ID?
> 
> We DO NOT CONTROL who, outside of KPLUG's control, has set up or
> configured archives of our lists.  Therefor, the best we can do is
> delete this person's email from our own archives.  However, if Google's
> already snatched it, there's nothing we can do until it expires from
> Google's cache.

sorry if I munged the quoted link. the email I received earlier today
(did you not also get one?) had a link

http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-steer/2006-September/002752.html


Backtracking the thread indicates the inititial posting was

http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-steer/2006-September/002750.html

If I am reading the headers right, the ID is
  Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

It looks to me that although Helga did include her raw email in the
original message body, we possibly exacerbated the problem by putting
the raw address into the subject line (which was repeated >20 times in a
discussion thread).

And even if she were less than totally careful, I thought my question
innocent enough :-) .. especially since _we_ created the subject line.

Would it be desirable to modify subject lines that people put real email
addresses into? .. at least in our archive, if not in list-distributed mail?

Possible answers:
 it's very hard
 it's harder than justified by the rare occurrence it fixes

Regards,
..jim

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