Re: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/debian-www-200303/msg00152.html
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Hans Wilmer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Please take a look at geocrawler and/or sourceforge lists.
> > We should do something similar.
>
> Debian must never do that! It would disclose many people, including
> me, from making use of the mailing lists! We won't be able to post
> into the lists and won't even be able to unsubscribe or to subscribe,
> not to mention sending complaints so that the domains we are sending
> from can be excepted from being blocked :(
>
> Filtering mail has always to be done by the final receipients, not by
> the transporters of the mail! If Debian would go the sourceforge way,
> the mailing lists would become obsolete.
>
> BTW, from my domain, yagibdah.de, no SPAM is being sent, and there's
> no reason to block mails from here!
I don't know what the hell are you talking about. I was referring to
the way email addresses from people who posted anything to any list
are protected so that spammers can't harvest them from the web pages.
Nothing more.
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