On 2011-08-24 11:42 AM Michael Stahl wrote:
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.
Can that feature be changed? Is it necessary?
None of the OOo or LibreOffice lists that I follow with Gmane have mangled addresses. Nor do
the other lists I follow.
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.
And I thank you for doing so. It is much easier to follow a high volume list using a newsreader
than through emails.
Also there are about 105 Apache lists available through Gmane. That is a big precedent for this
list also being available there.
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...
Only annoys anyone who can't set his filters properly, or is that a fault of MS
Outlook.
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.
Much appreciated.
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?
And what harvesting is being done? Someone does not understand Gmane's purpose
or how it works.
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