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: > > hi all, > > the ooo-dev list is available at gmane.org for NNTP access and via a web > frontend [0]. > > currently accessing this list via Gmane presents users not with the real > mail addresses of posters, but with mangled mail addresses, for example > <dennis.hamil...@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. > > as has been discussed in a thread[1] on ooo-dev recently this mangling > is annoying. > > 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]. > > thus i propose to disable the address mangling at Gmane. > > 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. > > regards, > michael > > PS: amazingly, if you look at the gmane.org homepage right now, ooo-dev > is the 5th most active list today. > > [0] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel > > [1] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3C002101cc6020$aba79b90$02f6d2b0$@acm.org%3E > > [2] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3Cj345us$gmt$1...@dough.gmane.org%3E > > [3] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/raw/%3C002101cc6020$aba79b90$02f6d2b0$@acm.org%3E > >
