[Buildroot] Emails being substituted when reading via Gmane NNTP
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Jun 18 08:46:58 UTC 2016
>>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I believe that is an intentional feature of gmane to make it more
>> difficult to harvest email addresses:
>>
>> http://gmane.org/tmda.php
>>
>> According to that page, this is something you as a list maintainer can
>> control (but users can enforce it for their mails).
> So for Buildroot your guys intentionally enabled that feature?
I think it is on by default - I at least don't recall explicitly
enabling it.
> Even though idea is nice still in the "original" Buildroot list
> all emails are displayed as they are, see
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-June/164199.html:
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> Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com
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> Given that probably that's not much sense in doing email obfuscation
> in Gmane? IMHO it adds more trouble for good people than adds problems
> to bad guys.
Notice that the obfuscated email addresses DO work. They simply get
forwarded through gmane's spam filter.
But yeah, it probably doesn't help much in combating spam.
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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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