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FS#12313 - Mailing lists show addresses and generate spam.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Carl Mueller (cmlr) - Tuesday, 02 December 2008, 00:34 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 18:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Replies to the mailing lists result in addresses appearing on the web, where spambots harvest them. This just happened to me,

http://www.linux-archive.org/archlinux-user-repository/174664-removal-request-juploadr64.html

Thank goodness I was using a disposable email address, but others may not be so lucky. People who put their email addresses into PKGBUILDs will suffer the same fate, unless they disguise the address.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 18:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  See comments or find me a relevant mailman setting
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 15:03 GMT
See also:  FS#9612 
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 15:56 GMT
Erm, isn't spam just a fact of life these days? Even if someone has a pristine email address that doesn't appear anywhere on the internet, it'll happen sooner or later...

If you can find a mailman configuration setting to do this, let me know, and I'll change it
Comment by Carl Mueller (cmlr) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 16:38 GMT
By using disposable email addresses I'm avoiding spam, as a matter of fact.
Comment by majiq (majiq) - Saturday, 01 August 2009, 22:48 GMT
Status? Any progress made on this?
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 20 September 2009, 08:14 GMT
Erm, this is old, and I was just assigned to it. Can we please decide what to do here? I vote for not doing anything, the actual amount of SPAM I get is still pretty low, provided thomas@archlinux.org is printed virtually everywhere and must be on every SPAM list in the tubes.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 20 September 2009, 12:28 GMT
Yes, let's close it.

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