[MonoDevelop] Re: [Mono-list] [off-topic] mailman anti-spam

Todd Berman tberman@sevenl.net
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:12:52 -0500


Hmm, I just went to do this, and it seems its already been done.

Not sure if someone else went ahead and did this or what. Lemme know if
it continues displaying the incorrect behaviour.

--Todd

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 09:25, Marco Canini wrote:
> Absolutely agreed
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 14:26, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma wrote:
> > I'm sorry for this off-topic, but I would suggest to configure the
> > mailman of these lists with "Show member addrs so they're not directly
> > recognisable as email addrs?" (Privacy Options) set to Yes.
> > 
> > The reason is very clear, actually the archives which are accessible by
> > web contain the e-mails, for example:
> > 
> > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/monodevelop-list/2004-February/000246.html
> > 
> > Spammers using web scanners can find those e-mails as you know. If we
> > activate the option mentioned above we would get something like:
> > 
> > https://listas.hispalinux.es/pipermail/gplurv/2004-February/000930.html
> > 
> > Not only the headers will be obscured, the mail addresses written in the
> > body of the messages will be too.
> > 
> > I think it is important for fighting against spam. What do you think
> > about this idea?
> > 
> > Sergio.