Re: Address munging

Dmitry writes:

> These include some pretty old and pretty alive mailing lists, which
> have paradoxically been hanging in a state that is worse than being
> completely absent from Gmane.

Except that you can't reply directly to authors, the groups are
perfectly usable, right?

[...]

> is there any reason, why this (mis)feature still exist at all?

I believe it was because of worries that spammers would be harvesting
email-addresses in a central place.

Some mailing lists would say no to Gmane carrying their list without the
encryption.

> I am not sure, if it possible for accumulated messages to be trivially
> reverted to their pristine state, but at least for newly incoming mail
> address munging could be disabled, could not it?

If the mailing list owner has agreed to have the list on Gmane on the
basis of encryption being on, it would be rude of Gmane to just turn it
off, right?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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