Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: SPAM on the gnu.org mailing-list

[Mathieu Roy]

> There's no way that we can prevent people from doing this.  If someone
> is on a public mailing list, and they receive an email, they can do
> whatever they want with that email message.

Sure.
> > mail.gnu.org is really a good url for the ones that use
> > automated-spam softwares.
>
> Yes, and as long as you have an @gnu.org address, you'll be protected
> for various reasons (after the anti-spam server goes online) and
> shouldn't have to worry about the spambots.  If you don't have an
> @gnu.org address, emails from the bots obviously won't pass through
> our anti-spam server, so in the end, we'll probably have to do some
> sort of name mangling.

And there are many mailing-list hosted by gnu.org users that doesn't 
have such email address, no ?

 > > Modifying email address will maybe not resolve all problems, but I
> > do not think it's useless. And since it's not complicated to provide
> > this feature -it seems to be a mailman feature-, I think we should.
>
> A real solution (for all mailing lists everywhere and all mail
> archives) is to use TMDA for sending outgoing mail, and use a dated or
> sender address <URL:http://www.tmda.net/config-client.html>

Well, I'm not convinced.
When I send a mail to a mailing-list, I do not want write with a 
temporary email address since it's possible that someone by reading 
this mailing archive a month later would like to get in touch with me. 
And it should be possible with ease.

But without getting through personnal consideration, it's better to 
provide a gnu.org mailing-list service with all security possible than 
to tell to people to get protected by themselves, no ?

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