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

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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