On Mon, 17 May 2021 davidson wrote: [dd]
It seems to me that this rationale depends on a couple of unstated premises: 1. If published, each mbox would contain one month's worth of messages, all of the messages in one file. 2. it is significantly easier for spammers to download a single file containing one month's worth of debian-user addresses, than it is to crawl through individual messages (using, presumably, the posted monthly author-indices).
[dd]
If last month's author-to-subject ratio is representative, then publishing monthly per-subject mboxes (instead of monthly messages containing all messages) would invalidate premise 2 (and contradict premise 1, obviously).
s/invalidate/make irrelevant/
So, can anyone see a reason not to propose publishing monthly per-subject mboxes?
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