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

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Florian Effenberger
<floeff@documentfoundation.org> 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
>
> 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 switch if the majority wants that, but honestly, it doesn't
> help a bit. It's simply worth NOTHING.

I concur that. A similar situation exists with the Ubuntu mailing lists,
where e-mails are available also in the mbox format, which is much worse.
There was a discussion (I initiated it) with no change in the practice.
The benefit there is that you can import the mbox archives in your favorite
mail client and perform searches, etc.

What we do here is add a best practice with regards to e-mail.
In addition to the usual where we avoid top-posting, quoting excessively, etc,
what we also do is create a new e-mail address just for mailing list
participation.
This new e-mail address is separate from our regular e-mail address.
For example, see the e-mail address I use now.
Personally, I think that Gmail serves well for such a mailing list mail address,
with good spam control and mailing list filtering,
and you can select to hide the spam folder from view.

Simos
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