[Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

[Douglas McCarroll]

 > The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be
 > appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from
 > posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got
 > from source to list when you want to make the source anonymous?

Precisely.  :)

Do you know for a fact that MailMan forwards these headers in anonymous lists?



Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 
>>I wonder though if any of this is necessary.
> 
> 
> Just as a point of clarification, you may wonder why I seem to be
> minimizing the importance of discernable e-mail addresses in Received:
> headers when I'm the one who raised the issue in the first place.
> 
> Originally, I thought you wanted to hide e-mail addresses from other
> list members to avoid them sending off-list flames, etc. This is a
> different issue from spam harvesting.
> 
> The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be
> appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from
> posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got
> from source to list when you want to make the source anonymous?
> 
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 
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