On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <st...@turnbull.jp> wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington via Mailman-users writes: > > > I must have missed this if it was ever discussed, but is it > > possible to mask the list members' email addresses in the archives? > > I saw Mark's response and Danil's issue, but I would recommend not > doing it even if available. People often do want to contact the > author of a post, and sometimes the CCs, but it's not very effective > in preventing spammers from harvesting. > > If you control subscription and generally trust the the subscribers, > then making the archives private can be moderately effective. > Anonymization is more effective, but of course you completely give up > the ability of subscribers to contact posters. And even then, many of > those addresses you've masked are going to be available to the > spammers because they're going to be in hacked address books and > random S3 buckets with lax permissions and on lists that you don't > run, or shared/sold by unscrupulous Internet sites. > > The other thing you can do (if you're confident in your own spam > filters) is to assign your subscribers addresses at your domain, and > forward them on. But Gmail probably does spam filtering better. And > of course your traffic will increase to a greater or lesser extent. > I have realized that much as this particular list's archives are publicly accessible, no one can view the members' addresses unless they log in to Postorius. That is safe enough. Initially I was worried because I was able to open a thread, click on the poster and see their email address, but I had forgotten that I was logged in as the List Admin. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] _______________________________________________ Mailman-users mailing list -- mailman-users@mailman3.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@mailman3.org https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/ Archived at: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message/Q2PVX6BNGAF6IYPWFDRNH3D3L62SGWAY/ This message sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
