[tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Furry
Is anybody else concerned by the fact that emails are in clear in the list archives (not to mention easily delineated by angle brackets)? I don't think it would take much for an enterprising hacker to compile all the emails from the list archives. Can we not feed the spammers easy targets, pl

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Andy Brown
On Thu Oct 07 2010 15:18:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Scott Furry wrote: Is anybody else concerned by the fact that emails are in clear in the list archives (not to mention easily delineated by angle brackets)? I don't think it would take much for an enterprising hacker to compile all the emails from t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:24 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: > On Thu Oct 07 2010 15:18:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Scott Furry wrote: > > Is anybody else concerned by the fact that emails are in clear in the > > list archives (not to mention easily delineated by angle brackets)? > > > > I don't think it would t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Furry
On 07/10/10 04:56 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:24 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: On Thu Oct 07 2010 15:18:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Scott Furry wrote: Is anybody else concerned by the fact that emails are in clear in the list archives (not to mention easily delineated by angle br

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Andy Brown
On Thu Oct 07 2010 16:04:38 GMT-0700 (PDT) Scott Furry wrote: I'm sorry Andy, what warnings are you talking about. Clicking on the "subscribe" link from the site window just brings up an email client window. And the site privacy statement doesn't given state anything specific about forum cont

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-07 Thread Goran Rakic
У пет, 08. 10 2010. у 08:56 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber пише: > Many of the other lists that I subscribe to have the > email addresses given as something like j...@ in the archives. > However, the OOo archives have them in plain text. I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Jean, *, Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: [.. clear text mailadresses in tdf mailarchive ..] >To answer Scott's original question: It's not something that concerns > me personally. My many email addresses are all over the internet, so > having my address harvested from another list makes no differe

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Goran, *, Goran Rakic schrieb: >У пет, 08. 10 2010. у 08:56 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber пише: >> Many of the other lists that I subscribe to have the >> email addresses given as something like j...@ in the >> archives. However, the OOo archives have them in plain text. >I believe this s

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: >> I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that there is >> a SPAMMODE option: >> http://mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/spammode.html > > +1 > Honestly, I disagree. Hiding mail addresses really doesn't help that much, a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: > >>> I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that there > is >>> a SPAMMODE option: >>> http://mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/spammode.html >> >> +1 >> > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-08 8:38 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Honestly, I disagree. Hiding mail addresses really doesn't help that > much, and to me, the disadvantages (like being unable to contact > someone directly from the archives) are larger than the advantages > you think it has. > > I'm happy to swi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Florian, *, Florian Effenberger schrieb: >Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: >>> I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that there >>> a SPAMMODE option: >>> http://mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/spammode.html >> >> +1 >Honestly, I disagree. Hiding mail

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 08 ottobre 2010 alle ore 15:36:44, Charles Marcus ha scritto: Security through obscurity doesn't work. If you have spam problems, use good anti-spam software. Well, indeed, spam should not be facilitated rather than managed via software after your address has been added to some ad

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Gianluca Turconi, *, Gianluca Turconi schrieb: [..] >Therefore, I had to unsubscribe form all TDF lists, create a new > address for these lists and then subscribe to them again. Woff... :( Too late! You missed the train. Your old (former good) mailadress is online - well prepared food for th

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:38 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: > > >> I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that there > is > >> a SPAMMODE option: > >> http://mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/spammode.html > > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-09 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Too late! You missed the train. Your old (former good) mailadress is online - well prepared food for the next harvester coming around which now can grab two adresses from You ;o)) Yeah, I know, but maybe a ad bot crawler may have mercy of me since I used that addres

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-09 Thread Manfred Usselmann
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:28:01 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:38 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: > > > > >> I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that > > >> there > > is > > >> a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-09 Thread Nguyen Vu Hung
Hello, On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrot e: > I agree with Florian that hiding addresses doesn't help much, and the > disadvantages are greater (for me). I vote to leave the lists as they > are. But we do need to add to the warning on the signup page. > This is an example on

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-09 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Gianluca, *, Gianluca Turconi schrieb: >Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >> Too late! You missed the train. Your old (former good) mailadress is >> online - well prepared food for the next harvester coming around >> which now can grab two adresses from You ;o)) >Yeah, I know, but maybe a ad bot cr

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-11 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/08/2010 02:28 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:38 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Honestly, I disagree. Hiding mail addresses really doesn't help that much, and to me, the disadvantages (like being unable to contact someone directly from the archives) are larger th