On 5/27/07, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hi list,
I'm not aware if this question has been asked on this list or not. But
why the damn mailman gives out email addresses in quotes? I'm talking
about this:
On ..... Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> sadasdas
> ....
Well I can see that gmail quotes the email address as well. Also,
there seems to be no way to customize that behaviour; and if anyone
knows of one then please let me know.
I know technology can't solve all user incompetence but can't mailman
Everything depends upon what you believe to be user incompetence.
Inability to edit simple config files can also be termed as user
incompetence.
just obfuscate mail addresses in quotes? I've been harping over this for
a long time. Each time I tell people to configure their MUA not to quote
my / anybody's email address but it'll be much easier if mailman can
screen the messages for email addresses in quotes and remove / edit them
out?
There has been a thread on this once before. I think I was the 'guilty
party' then (or was it Manoj?). Honestly, if you want so much privacy
then why do you get out of your computer on to the interweb?
Participation in a public mailing list implies that you do not mind
strangers wanting to talk to you or email you. If you want to ignore
someone then you flag him/her as spam. Your mail service provider will
do the rest.
And can you imagine that there are certain lists that don't remove
email addresses even from the headers? The debian lists, gtk-list are
ones I know and am signed up to. And just imagine the disaster when
you put in your email address as maintainer in your FOSS code that
gets mirrored over hundreds of servers and all of it is indexed by
good ol' Google. Or would you prefer putting in your phone
number/postal address instead?
Strangely, despite all this I've hardly ever seen any spam in my
Inbox; it's all in the Spam Bin.
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