• TyrusMaynard <rustym@main.nc.us> [20021030 20:18]: wrote:

In my short experience as a Mailman 2.0.13 list administrator, I have had this setting: obscure_addresses (privacy): Show member addrs so they're not directly recognizable as email addrs?

toggled as "Yes" since the inception of the list.

The help says that the following will result: "Setting this option causes member email addresses to be transformed when they are presented on list web pages (both in text and as links), so they're not trivially recognizable as email addresses. The intention is to to prevent the addresses from being snarfed up by automated web scanners for use by spammers".

However the mail items in the list archives still show the "@" in all email addresses. Only the list of member addresses has an "AT" replacement to thwart spam robot scanners ( and that is configured to be viewed only by admin anyway).

???Is this feature working properly? ... and will there be a future Mailman version that will eliminate emails entirely so that they elude more than trivial
interpretation?

Since I also have the archives set to a private status: (archive_private (archive), could this privacy setting be the reason why the
"@" values are not substituted.? If so , can I expect for the emails to be hidden or substituted if and when the archive is coverted to public status.

In summary, that feature doesn't work. I can say that conclusively. Some experienced list admins have it working but I believe they used some patch that someone forgot to document ;)

-Wash

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• TyrusMaynard <rustym@main.nc.us> [20021030 20:18]: wrote:

In my short experience as a Mailman 2.0.13 list administrator, I have had this setting: obscure_addresses (privacy): Show member addrs so they're not directly recognizable as email addrs?

toggled as "Yes" since the inception of the list.

The help says that the following will result: "Setting this option causes member email addresses to be transformed when they are presented on list web pages (both in text and as links), so they're not trivially recognizable as email addresses. The intention is to to prevent the addresses from being snarfed up by automated web scanners for use by spammers".

However the mail items in the list archives still show the "@" in all email addresses. Only the list of member addresses has an "AT" replacement to thwart spam robot scanners ( and that is configured to be viewed only by admin anyway).

???Is this feature working properly? ... and will there be a future Mailman version that will eliminate emails entirely so that they elude more than trivial
interpretation?

Since I also have the archives set to a private status: (archive_private (archive), could this privacy setting be the reason why the
"@" values are not substituted.? If so , can I expect for the emails to be hidden or substituted if and when the archive is coverted to public status.

In summary, that feature doesn't work. I can say that conclusively. Some experienced list admins have it working but I believe they used some patch that someone forgot to document ;)

-Wash

-- Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD."
GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-)

Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.