Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC, Anonymous Lists

2015-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Pavan Koli writes: (a generally good description of an approach to the problem) > hidden from him. But if someone tries to spam the mailing list, > that person can be caught by noting his anonymous id. I'm not sure what use case you have in mind. Why would a spammer post to the anonymous list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC, Anonymous Lists

2015-03-15 Thread Pavan Koli
> >I have the same doubt. You need to define "anonymous list". In > particular, specify who is, and who is not, supposed to be able to > >1. See email addresses of subscribers. > >2. Figure out whether two posts are from the same person. > as well whether you need to > >3. Ensure that subscrib

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC, Anonymous Lists

2015-03-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Pavan Koli writes: > I have a doubt, while implementing anonymous lists do we have to store the > email ids in encrypted form in the database. I have the same doubt. You need to define "anonymous list". In particular, specify who is, and who is not, supposed to be able to 1. See email addre

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC, Anonymous Lists

2015-03-09 Thread Pavan Koli
I have a doubt, while implementing anonymous lists do we have to store the email ids in encrypted form in the database. As people having access to database can view the original email ids. But if we do encryption and decryption it'll add an extra overhead and slow down many operations.

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC, Anonymous lists

2015-03-08 Thread Pavan Koli
My name is Pavan Koli I'm interested in the project idea(Anonymous lists). My rough idea of implementing it is using modifications in the schema of the database table. Just before sending of messages in the From header actual mail id will be replaced by the anonymous id. Reply-To to be the anonym