Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 4/13/05, William M. Quarles <walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apparently you guys haven't bothered to look at what Gmane actually does to inhibit the spiders. It's not just "user at example.com." They do that on the website for groups that fail to do the following: they actually *encrypt* your e-mail address and force the sender to verify themselves. Read more.
http://gmane.org/tmda.php
I've read that url.. and it says that list maintainers have to REQUEST encryption to be turned on. Its not somethign list maintainers turn on themselves.. it something gmame turns on at the request of list maintainers. That url doesn't even explain to whom at gmame you make the request.
List maintainers request it on the form when they add their list to the service, or they can contact the Gmane staff directly to request such a change afterwards. It isn't so hard.
If this is a gmame feature that list maintainers have to request be turned on... why the hell isnt gmame turning this feature on by default for ALL the lists they archive? Why do list maintainers have to request this feature? Why do list maintainers have to know about gmame's existance at all? gmame needs to turn this on for ALL the lists they archive and then let maintainers opt-out of it instead of opt-in. I consider this a problem with how gmame is managed. They should be defaulting to encypted usernames in the newgroup archives and save list maintainers the trouble of tracking this down and interacting with gmame at all.
Rather than complaining about how who does what let's get down to this: if you want address encryption turned on for Gmane, contact the list administrator. It is not very hard for them to take care of, trust me.
Thanks, William
