On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 08:43 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > 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.
I dont mind strangers talking to me. But what i mind is spam bots sending spam to my mailbox. Gmail does a decent job of keeping spam out. But a lot of it is getting through as well. Its better to try and keep things safe than be sorry. If the MUA is faulty or as you stated Gmail quotes email addresses, then mailman could be a line of defense to keep email addresses being displayed in the message body. Why does mailman obfuscate the email addresses in the headers? ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) in the archives? Obviously preventing spam is a goal, right? Well, if it can protect addresses in the headers then it _should_ do the same even in the email's body. Not doing so can be classified as a classic security stupidity... Heavily guard your front door while someone enters from the unprotected rear :P -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
