[Ilugc] Mailman showing email addresses in the clear
- From: giskard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Prasenjeet Dutta)
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:45:32 +0530
On July 08, 2002 9:23 AM "Prabhu Ramachandran" wrote:
PD> In this day and age, that's like an open invite to spammers
PD> saying ``come spam me!''.
I'm not so sure about that but I'll take your word for it.
I looked at this issue before we moved to mailman but found no obvious
solution.
[...]
I searched on google and came up with a couple of interesting threads:
The clearest post I found was at
<
http://mail.python.org/pipermail-21/mailman-developers/2002-February/010739
.html>
> As I see it there are really these issues to protecting
> email addresses in Mailman:
>
> 1) list admin addresses
> 2) public archives
> 3) private archives
> 4) raw archive
> 5) list rosters
> [...]
> As for #2, I'd go for the low-tech approach of simply
> discarding the hostname part of the email address in
> all public archives.
So for now we have the following choices:
1. stop using pipermail to archive and be happy with the yahoo
archives. I can do that pretty easily.
2. Find a solution to this problem and let me know.
3. Live with it.
I think it would be better to use IITM instead of ad-infested
YahooGroups (maybe use that as a backup). What I'll try to do
is figure out a way to get Mailman to discard the hostname part
of the email address in public archives.
Cheers
--PD
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