[Buildroot] Emails being substituted when reading via Gmane NNTP

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Fri Jun 24 16:57:46 UTC 2016


Hi Peter,

On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 10:46 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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> > > > > > "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> writes:
> Hi,
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>  >> 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:
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>  > Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com 
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>  > 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



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