Right. I don't have access to those techniques in my e-mail client. Nor in my news reader.
- Dennis [Please everyone: no suggestions for what software would do that. I'm not changing over my infrastructure for this one situation.] -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 15:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Gmane address encryption (was: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?) Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 14:55:15 -0700: > Here's a mangled To: address that is obfuscated and defies my inbox > rules. Is this what you are talking about? Can we turn that off? > Can we get it to user our accurate list address? It almost seems that > our list is being BCCed. > FWIW, filtering list traffic by the list headers (eg, List-Id), or by using a unique address to subscribe to the list and then filtering by the BCC-delivered-to address, work around that. I know not everyone uses these techniques. > From: Bjoern Michaelsen [mailto:redacted] > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 02:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Improvement Program, Apache Migration and > Privacy Policy > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Stahl [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 14:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Gmane address encryption (was: Re: [What?] Why and How did this > reach my inbox?) > > On 24.08.2011 22:39, Larry Gusaas wrote: > > > > 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? > > it seems there is a form on the Gmane site where the list information > can be edited, including the mangling (it is called "encryption"). > > but before changing it we should ensure that posters on this list are > not concerned about potentially getting more spam. > > (haven't checked whether any of the various other sites that archive > this list expose the mail addresses to scraping by spammers) > > > None of the OOo or LibreOffice lists that I follow with Gmane have > > mangled addresses. Nor do the other lists I follow. > > of the LO lists that i look at occasionally only the main development > list seems to have the mangling enabled, the other ones not. > > regards, > michael >
