Thanks I will work this from a different angle & try to contact someone from the main lists page, perhaps they can remove references to my name/email.
Open shouldn't mean avail for spammers to grab your email. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM, ∅ <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am > > concerned that a security hole is present. > > It seems this is not consistent with the definitions one can find, such as: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hole > > > When I did a Google search on my name yesterday an old post to the > *mailing > > list * dated 7/22/2013 appeared with my gmail id. > > It's obfuscated. Spammers are not likely to make much use out of it. > > If you're trying to hide your email from the Internet, then that may > be a problem, but that's totally consistent with the ENTIRETY of > Ubuntu's mailing lists. If you have a problem, you need to bring it to > Ubuntu as a whole. There are ways around this given the software used > (mailman), but it's not Lubuntu's fault. You should look at the main > lists page and find some people to contact there: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > (yes, all those lists have this problem) > > > Also I can access the The Lubuntu-users Archives without any login > process > > & my along all other email (gmail) addresses is there for anyone to see. > > This seems like a large breach in security to me. Am I incorrect? > > This is the default for mailman, actually. Not hard to fix, but it > does need to be applied universally and Ubuntu as a whole would need > to agree with it. > > Good luck, > wxl >
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