From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Brodkin Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:57:46 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] Emails being substituted when reading via Gmane NNTP In-Reply-To: <87vb167ukd.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1466149048.31770.11.camel@synopsys.com> <87ziqk6vu2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <1466178031.23608.9.camel@synopsys.com> <87vb167ukd.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <1466787406.2872.17.camel@synopsys.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Peter, On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 10:46 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin 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: > ?-------------------------> 8----------------------- > ?> Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com? > ?-------------------------> 8----------------------- > > ?> 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. So any plan to disable that for BR on Gmane if it barely adds anything meaningful :) -Alexey