On 23.08.2011 21:25, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > How about the mangling of the To address? When I get one of these, I > cannot use any rules because the To address that my mail client sees > is not that of ooo-dev but some hacked-up pseudo gmane address.
when signing up a mailing list at Gmane there is a checkbox whether the mail addresses (as seen by Gmane users) should be mangled or not; this feature is intended to prevent address harvesting and thus deter spammers. > I have a different question. > > According to the information on GMANE, it takes someone who claims to > be an administrator to offer up a mailing list for aggregation > there. > > Who did that and where was it discussed here? I suspect I may have > seen an off-hand mention but I had no idea what the consequences were > at that point. guilty party here. i plead mitigating circumstances: i did it with good intentions. i thought signing up our mailing lists with Gmane would annoy the heck out of Dennis Hamilton. errr, no, wait a minute, my memory is playing tricks on me again... ah, now i remember: i did it to make our project more accessible to the wider FOSS community and encourage some participation. yeah, that was it. and in my defense, digging through my cache i found that on this list some 78 messages have been posted via Gmane, from 6 distinct authors. > Finally, wholesale harvesting of someone's e-mail list raises serious > netiquette issues far beyond concerns for top posting, CC additions, > etc. When did we consider what we expect of that and also what does > it not being on Apache infrastructure raise as a concern? it's a public mailing list. what concerns would be raised by additional mirroring? > - Dennis regards, michael
