Re: Email address in response

[Bob Proulx]

wrotycz wrote:
> When user replies to email from the list, more often than not his
> email is included in plaint text, which is, mildly speaking,
> undesirable behaviour.
> On Dec 1, 2024, 12:34 AM User Name < user-name@email.com > wrote:

That's a feature of your mail user agent.  For example mutt does that
as a default configuration.  I configure my mutt to only quote the
Display Name and not the email address.

> Funny thing is, sometimes the email is correctly obfuscated.
> Adam Brown wrote in <29387000.9226064@gnu.org>:
> blah, blah, blah

It depends upon the person's email configuration making the reply.
The mailing list only sees that content as the content of any mail
that might be sent to the mailing list.

Also everyone who is subscribed will receive the email from the person
sending the email and will have their email address.  That's the way
email works.  Email is not anonymous.

> Would you mind to fix that and not broadcast users' emails in
> messages.

Technically impossible.  Email always must have a sender.  And these
days almost no email site will allow forged incoming mail because it
is such a spam, scam, and abuse problem.

> The same thing, even worse is in mbox format archives, where these
> emails are, again, in plain text.  Compressing these em files would
> also, slightly, help to mitigate the issue.  Kind regards wrotycz

Compressing the files could save some disk space.  But the active
folder needs to be uncompressed for Mailman to append new messages to
it as they arrive.  Also compression does nothing to hide the content
of the email.  Compression does not make anything private.

Also remember that an unknown and uncounted number of sites like
mail-archive and gmane subscribe and archive all of the email and make
it available on the web too.

Bob