Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:39:25PM +1000, Lex Hider wrote:
> So basically, the main reason debian doesn't do this is so it isn't used
> by spammers to gather email addresses[?]
I would imagine the reason is more like "not enough demand" or "nobody has
ever bothered". Making mboxes available wouldn't make things any easier for
address harvesters.
(In practice I don't spend much time reading old threads, and it's more
convenient to read a couple messages by Googling for a Message-ID than to
download big mboxes. I wouldn't use them very much.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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