On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> I don't see why the archives need authentication at all. > > Wasn't it a defense against email-harvesting issue?
Not everyone has Gmail's spam filtering! That said, it's not like we've ever tried particularly hard to protect email addresses, and https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~charles/agora/registrar.txt exists - meh.
