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

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 than the advantages you think it
> > has.

> 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.

I agree.  Hiding the email address makes it harder for mailing list 
members to contact each other, which is much worse than the flips-side 
of getting more spam (which in any case can be filtered).

People who send email should expect that their address will be known. 
If you don't like that, you can use a throw-away account to post to the 
mailing list.

Jean is right, that the behavior should be stated on the sign-up page. 
Most mailing lists are this way, though, so it shouldn't come as a big 
surprise.

     ----Jon

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