[CF-Devel] ot: list archive/spam concern

[Rick Tanner]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Preston Crow wrote:

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      I'm concerned that the archive of this list exposes email addresses to
     
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      spammers.  The issue is that spammers will run web robots to search for
     
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      email addresses, and they will find all of ours in the archives.
     
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      Is the archive something we control?
     
     
Yes.

There is an option in Mailman that hides the senders email address
(replacing it with the list address)

I still need to do a little more investigating to see how this works,
exactly.  For instance, does it just "hide" the email address in the
archive, or in the actual message that gets sent to the list.  Will
turning this option on break anything, etc.

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      Could we have a sed script to do something like:
     
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         s/@[a-zA-Z1-9-_.]*[.]/@{domain}./g
     
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      That would hide the addresses from the web, making posting to the list
     
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      safe.
     
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      I've seen one or two list archives do this.
     
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I'm not sure how something like that would work with the current setup
for the Announce, Devel and Discussion list.

It'something I would have to bug the admins here about.. ;)

- Rick Tanner
     
     leaf at real-time.com