On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > > so does the "email address obfuscation" approach adopted by gmane not help in > > this case? > > Depends on if gmane is willing to carry out individual bans or not, if the > troll can mail through the obfuscation because he's a member of gmane and I > can't get him stopped, I have a problem.
Just for clarification, just because you read a mailing list through gmane does NOT mean your posts to the mailing list have a From or other headers that pruport to come from gmane -- gmane posts as "you" and you have to be subscribed to the mailing list. (Of course someone could spoof their mail as coming from the gmane subscribed user...hm, how many MLAs have "read-only" subscription modes?) I understand your issues with loss of control and the amount of time you need to spend to accomodate things like gmane, however it does serve a very strong need for a large number of people (witness the wide variety of mailing lists on gmane) and so please don't dismiss it without due consideration. I would like list-managers to be on gmane. Thanks, Adi
