Regarding gatewaying Debian mailing lists to Gmane

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:59:27 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.discuss
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Dear Debian listmaster,

as you are perhaps aware, a variety of public lists, operating under you care, for many years have been gatewayed to Gmane <news://news.gmane.io> — an isolated (from Usenet) NNTP-server, run by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen.

Thankfully, most lists are fine.  However, for a reason nobody knows for sure¹, few of them had got a flag, that enables munging of anything that looks like a mail address in all the mail passed (see an example below).

Despite the fact that Debian mail archives are publicly available via HTTP along with all addresses, Lars considers it inappropriate to turn the munging off without requesting an explicit permission from the people in charge.

So, being interested in a user-friendly Debian, I am writing you to ask for such a permission.

In the case you are also responsible for alioth-lists.debian.net, the same applies there as well.

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¹ Perhaps, whoever had sent an initial request to add a list to Gmane (anyone could do that) just did not uncheck that option, which was a default until Gmane stopped offering address munging for newly added lists entirely.

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