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[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:24:32PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:11:03AM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:

> > It will work for now but I think as Bernhard says we can't really keep the
> > mailing list archives secret from the rest of the internet. It means people
> > are less likely to come across GRASS while searching for the solution to a
> > problem.
> 
> I agree almost, but on the other hand the privacy (email addresses) must be
> somewhat protected. Mailman isn't very clever to scramble the email
> addresses (or I don't know how to do that, hints are welcome).

Address scrambling is not helping a lot in my opinion.
Thus there are many places my email addresses are published unscrambled.
A good (local) spamfilter gives some protection,
but in the long run the internet community as to come
to better solutions which is outside of the focus of this group.
You might want to support efforts like http://www.cauce.org/.

Bottom line: scrambling email addresses or protecting webpages
behind authentification does more damage then good as I can see it.
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