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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 take much for an enterprising hacker to compile 
all the emails from the list archives.
Can we not feed the spammers easy targets, please?

Regards,
Scott Furry

All mailing list archives are in plain text.  Did you not read the 
warnings when you singed up?


IIRC, the warnings say that all the *messages* can be read in a public
archive. Scott is talking about the email *addresses* on those messages
in the archives. Many of the other lists that I subscribe to have the
email addresses given as something like jean@xxxxxxxx in the archives.
However, the OOo archives have them in plain text. I don't know about
gmane and the others.

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 difference. I get a
zillion spam messages a day, almost all of which gmail filters out for
me. 

--Jean

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