[SAC] Mailman mbox access

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

On 30 April 2012 19:55, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As part of the update of the Nabble archives, and thanks to the
>> support of Eli Adam, the recently created archives at Nabble have a
>> full history of archives imported.
>>
>> To provide the mbox files to Nabble admins for the import, Eli managed
>> to get an "special" url that every mailing list has for logged users
>> to download the full mbox file without having any admin privilege.
>>
>> We just want to note here that those urls are accessible and we are
>> wondering if we should document or not the process publicly.
>
> While I am much friend of SAC procedures being documented, I am
> not so sure on this one. It looks like an invitation to download 18k+
> functional email address for whatever (bad) reasons...
>
> Just my 0.02 euro cents,
> Markus
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I in fact would prefer to disable this mailman feature, so new
requests for mboxes would pass through a Trac ticket.

At this time any mailman savvy spammer can get those addresses.

-- 
Jorge Sanz
http://es.osgeo.org