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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mailing list archive email breakage


From: Jan Hudec
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mailing list archive email breakage
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:51:48 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:55:30 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> This isn't just lists, it's archives too.  If my archive name contains
> a valid email address, then if I want that archive to be public, then
> (necessarily) that email address must also be public.  Similarly for
> all archives that I merge from, since those archive names will become
> publically accessible.
> 
> That may become something that needs thinking about.  Perhaps people
> will want to use something that looks like an email address, but
> doesn't point to anything.

Perhaps allowing to replace `@' in archive names with something else. Eg
`.' as DNS uses (yes, it's ambiguous when the name contains `.', but
it's machine indistinguishable from plain domain name and thus spam
robots will have hard time harvesting that).

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