[Mailman-Users] Major problems with privacy and mailman lists and harvesters

[Michael Welch]

Mark Sapiro wrote at 08:58 PM 6/2/2008:
 
>| I think the Topica listserver had a great way to deal with email
>| addresses in archives. You could see a semblance of the email address,
>| but no way could you deduce the real address. If you are logged into
>| the site, each is still obscured, but is a live link that opens up an
>| email-like dialog box -- with the real address still obscured. But it
>| does send an email to the real address for the obscured address.
>
>Try clicking the 'forward' button when viewing a message in a Topica
>archive. It reveals all.

Right, there's lots broken at Topica. But I sure do like the intent of their obscuration technique. 

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