[XCSSA] test non-anonymous

[Tim Soderstrom]

Either way, thanks for looking into this one, Tweeks! I, and I am sure others on this list, really appreciate it!

I'm trying to remember lists that seemed to do this so I find an example, I'll send it your way.

Tim


On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Tweeks wrote:

> On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:49:03 pm Tweeks wrote:
>> Ok.. Let's see how this looks.. :)
> 
> 
> Hmm. well.. the desired effect from the list looks good.. However.. the 
> address is not obfuscated from the actual email view (which means spammers 
> can still join the list and harvest our addresses) The Web/Archive list 
> rather simply replaces the "@" in our email addresses with " at ".  Not very 
> advanced.  I imagine this will offer almost no real protection since mailman 
> is one of the more popular mail list packages.
> 
> And since I really do not want to restrict archive access (archive_private) to 
> members only (we WANT to be able to google for our own meetings, notes, 
> threads, etc).. this means that spammers WILL be able to harvest addresses 
> still by simply re-replacing " at " with "@".
> 
> Dragon..
> You mentioned that you worked on mailman in another life.  Is there not a 
> feature that will include the username in the reply email, maybe as:
> 	"Firstname Lastname" <xcssa at xcssa.org>
> 
> So that the name is preserved, but the replies are all sent to the list the 
> the poster address is stripped?
> 
> Just curious..
> 
> I'll leave this on over night and get your feedback Dragon.  Feel free to hit 
> me up off list.  BTW.. I'm not at work Friday.. I'm in training (if you want 
> to email me directly at work).
> 
> L8ER all...
> 
> Tweeks
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