hi all, the ooo-dev list is available at gmane.org for NNTP access and via a web frontend [0].
currently accessing this list via Gmane presents users not with the real mail addresses of posters, but with mangled mail addresses, for example <[email protected]>. when replying to such an address, the gmane.org mail server will forward the mail to the real (unmangled) address only after the sender has answered a confirmation mail. this makes it difficult for spammers to scrape the real mail addresses. as has been discussed in a thread[1] on ooo-dev recently this mangling is annoying. as Gary Lee pointed out[2], the Apache mail archive itself already makes the raw content of mails including real mail addresses available to web scrapers, for example [3]. thus i propose to disable the address mangling at Gmane. If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72 hours then I will invoke Lazy Consensus and proceed to implement the above proposal. regards, michael PS: amazingly, if you look at the gmane.org homepage right now, ooo-dev is the 5th most active list today. [0] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%[email protected]%3E [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%[email protected]%3E [3] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/raw/%[email protected]%3E
