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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] turn off mail address mangling at Gmane
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:36:18 -0700
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Michael,

+1 and +1 for your initiative! The topic has been discussed too much in =
this and other forums.

Regards,
Dave

On Sep 5, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Michael Stahl wrote:

>=20
> hi all,
>=20
> the ooo-dev list is available at gmane.org for NNTP access and via a =
web
> frontend [0].
>=20
> currently accessing this list via Gmane presents users not with the =
real
> mail addresses of posters, but with mangled mail addresses, for =
example
> <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>.
> 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.
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> as has been discussed in a thread[1] on ooo-dev recently this mangling
> is annoying.
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> 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].
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> thus i propose to disable the address mangling at Gmane.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> regards,
> michael
>=20
> PS: amazingly, if you look at the gmane.org homepage right now, =
ooo-dev
> is the 5th most active list today.
>=20
> [0] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel
>=20
> [1]
> =
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3C=
002101cc6020$aba79b90$02f6d2b0$@acm.org%3E
>=20
> [2]
> =
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3C=
j345us$gmt$1@dough.gmane.org%3E
>=20
> [3]
> =
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/raw=
/%3C002101cc6020$aba79b90$02f6d2b0$@acm.org%3E
>=20
>=20