Re: [gentoo-embedded] publicy posting email addresses

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 01:57 +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Can't it simply be cfriedt@... ? That's what the ts-7000 list is, but
> that's yahoo groups ;-)

No.


> I don't mind if it's stored in a database somewhere in plain text, but i
> just feel kindof violated when people can use some data-miner to read my
> endless rants about how I would love to improve the current state of all
> things.

I've changed it to use the same method as marc.theaimsgroup.com
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-embedded&m=117503494225947&w=2
Please allow 1 hour for it to be processed.


> ~/Chris
>
> Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:36 +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I know that we should all be free to write eachother and whatnot, but
> >> for the sake of at least some net-anonymity (and certainly a decreased
> >> amount of spam) wouldn't it be a wise suggestion to leave out domain
> >> names of list members?
> >>
> >> Most other lists that I belong to do not post email addresses publicly.
> >> I don't really care for the most part, but i do happen to get some spam,
> >> which just .... well ... sucks.
> >>
> >> http://scriptstest.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-embedded-per-month.xml
> >>
> >> The above site was discovered only while googling the first half of my
> >> username, and I doubt that anyone who writes crawl-engines for data
> >> mining purposes would _not_ think to replace [at] with @ when adding to
> >> the list of spamming targets.
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats
> >
> > Chris, That's my doing.. How would you prefer that the email addresses
> > be obscured? btw there are tons of other places where it's archived
> > plain/text.. But if you have a preferred method of obscuring then just
> > yell. I/we can't omit all of the domain.. So we have to use some sorta
> > separator.
> >
> >
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo Linux

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