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Re: Changing the footer make obvious that the contact point is a public list ?



[ Copy to listmaster: http://lists.debian.org/ is not in the web team
hands. ]

Le 04/01/2012 20:08, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:30:36PM +0000, Raf Czlonka a écrit :
>>
>> Even if everyone, e.g. Debian, mail-archive, etc. obfuscated the email
>> addresses in the headers, you just made sure that your email address
>> will never be removed/obfuscated in such a way as you put your it in the
>> body of THIS email... TWICE!
> 
> Hi Raf,
> 
> for non-specialists, it is perhaps not obvious that the contact point for the
> list archive website is itself a publicly archived mailing list…
> 
> The message that the user pointed out is definitely a spam that can be removed
> if enough persons push the « Report as spam » button and enough DDs confirm the
> removal (see http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam ).
> 
> For the later disclosure of email address on debian-www@lists.debian.org, I
> think that it is a misfeature on our side.  Given the footer on our website,
> quoted below, we can not oppose our disclaimer as usual
> (http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#disclaimer) because there is no link to
> it, nor expect senders to take proper measures to protect their address.
> 
>   To report a problem with the web site, e-mail debian-www@lists.debian.org.
>   For other contact information, see the Debian contact page.
> 
> Could the footer be changed to something like the following ?
> 
>   To report a problem with the web site, contact us on our publicly archived
>   mailing list <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/";>debian-www@lists.debian.org</a>.
>   For other contact information, see the Debian contact page.
> 
> PS: the mailto URL to debian-www in the current footer is broken
> (http://www.debian.org/mailto:debian-www@lists.debian.org).  I can report it as
> a proper bug if needed.
> 
> Have a nice day,

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