[Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:03:14 -0500


>>>>> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <marc_news@vasoftware.com> writes:

    MM> The funny thing is that I've gotten lots of hate mail saying
    MM> "how do you dare sending my my mailman password in
    MM> cleartext. STOP THIS NOW!!!", but not one "why did this come
    MM> from test-admin@lists.sf.net" :-)

    MM> That said, I very much welcome the new option in 2.1.

And of course, in MM2.1 they can turn their password reminders off
entirely.

    MM> Am I to understand however that the sitewide list doesn't have
    MM> to be a list and can be a mail alias instead?

No, as it stands in cvs, it has to be a list.

-Barry