Hey.
> And the factors of maintaining an open forum. I have received
> a private response in favor of not hiding address since the
> user has had useful benefits on their archives in not doing so.
I would suggest that MHonArc continues to show the addresses from
the senders.
Trying to get MHonArc to conceal the addresses is not a very
useful approach against spam and does decrease the value of the
archives. In my opinion, other approaches, such as the usage of
spamassassin and similar techniques should be used against
spam.
For instance, you could post messages to each list from a
``you+$TOKEN@xxxxxxxxxx'' address (where $TOKEN is some string
depending on the list you are writing to) and then have
your mail filtered based on that token (so ``you+mhonarc'',
``you+gimp'' and ``you'' get different treatment). Completely
ignoring messages sent to ``you+somelist'' would be about as
useful (with minor bandwidth differences) as having the archive
for ``somelist'' not show your address. However, checking
the messages sent to ``you+somelist'' periodically (basically
treating it as a low priority account/folder) would be more
useful as people reading the archives can still contact you.
I would strongly encourage the developers of MHonArc to maintain
some mechanism for allowing readers of the archives to get the
email addresses for the message senders. I would also encourage
people to regard as public those email addresses from which they
post to mailing lists.
Thanks.
Alejo.
http://bachue.com/alejo
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