It doesn't do a complete job of obscuring email addresses in archived email.
1. Some email clients use the users' email address as the base of the message-id. 2. Mailmain doesn't obscure email addresses in the body, so if this message were archived, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] would appear in the archive and be accessible to so-called harvesters of email addresses. I would like the ability to perform a one-way transformation on _all_ email addresses. I fear that obfuscation techniques such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "mailman-archival-error at computerdatasafe dot com dot au" are becoming well-known enough that writers of the harvesting software will code round it. However, removing email addresses from lines such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:" is safe, and as a writer to numerous lists, my intended audience is those subscribed to the list; if archival copies are less complete that's fine by me. If I want someone to write direct to me, I will spell out the email address. Many people go to extraordinary lengths to reduce spam; the more mailing-list software does to help the better for all of is. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
