Spam prevention and privacy on list

[Derek Martin]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:05:37AM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> > I noticed that this list's archives are open to the public and email
> > addresses are not obfuscated (nor are home addresses apparently).  Does
> > this concern anyone?  I get an enormous amount of spam.  This address is
> > listed on some web sites, but with some of my more private email aliases,
> > I'm not sure where they're harvesting the information.
> 
> Yes, it concerns me: I've had addresses harvested from the GPG keysigning
> entries, and would welcome a change to obfuscate any email address shown to
> the public.

Same here, though it concerns me a lot less now that I post from a
non-existant address.

It /is/ possible to configure pipermail (the archive management
software which comes with GNU mailman) to obscure e-mail addresses,
however the feature is broken in all releases of GNU Mailman prior to
I think 2.1.0 or so.  BLU uses 2.0.6 which is b0rken.  An upgrade
would be necessary to fix the problem.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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