Re: [Mailman-Developers] Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code from Mailman 3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:15 PM, C Nulk wrote:

I am pretty sure allowing the raw email addresses to be available is

help protect the users/clients email addresses is helpful despite what
others think.  It is fine if someone considers the obfuscation that

more computationally time-invested to get the email address is better
than giving it away.  Sure bots are out there but if what I do helps

do it.

going to go over like a lead balloon here. Anything (however minor) to Mailman uses is trivial, however, anything I can do to make it harder or slow down someones system to make them look at it (and hopefully get rid of the bot), then great. But at least give me the choice to be able to

Agreed.

I happened to like Barry's (?) earlier comment about the "send me this
message" link.  Or maybe "send my message to the original poster" link
where you can click on the link, compose your message, and send it
through Mailman all without the original sender's address.  Mailman or

message.  Yes, I know it is more work that is why we have computers :)

whatever process can figure out the original sender and pass on the your

The difficult part about the latter is that I hate web interfaces for reading/composing email (Gmail included). I want to use my mail reader for that!

As for using robots.txt, hmm, it is not the legitimate search engines I

care about, it is the search engines/crawlers that do not respect my
robots.txt file that I care about.  If I had an effective way to

needed to drop them into my firewall as I recognized them.

consistently identify those non-legitimate crawlers, I would add what I

Agreed.
-Barry

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