[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,
>
> >> 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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