[lug] Gmane? addendum

[Paul E Condon]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:40:36PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:39:03PM -0600, Chris Riddoch wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> > 
> > Someone just sent me a suggestion which seems fair to relay on to the
> > list for opinions before making a decision on it.
> > 
> > It's been proposed that we set up a Gmane mirror for the BLUG mailing
> > list.  Have a look at http://gmane.org/ to figure out what this could
> > do for us.
> > 
> > In short, it would provide a mail-to-news gateway and web archive for
> > our lists.  It'd replace our existing web archive of the mailing list,
> > which might or might not be a bad thing depending on how you feel
> > about it.  We can make the gateway unidirectional so that people still
> > have to be subscribed to the lists through Mailman on our server to
> > post to them.  Addresses in messages archived on Gmane can be
> > obfuscated so that spammers can't get them easily.

The Debian people have some plausible objections to obfuscation technology.
Look at what they say before deciding to try it. All their stuff is in
open archives and they are very verbal so it shouldn't be hard to find.

> > 
> > I don't have much of an opinion on this yet.  I'd like to hear
> > arguments pro/con first.  Got any?
> > 
> 
> I believe that Debian lists are connected to Gmane, and that many Debian
> regulars use gmane as their primary access method. But I read on the
> Debian lists that certain viruses collect email addresses from gmane
> or similar, and use them in the from: field of virus sores. I can't vouch
                                                        \p
> for the truth of this claim, but I can see that it is technically possible
> for a virus to do such collection.
> 
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