[Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:50:25 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

>>> What happens when someone sees an address in the archive six months
>>> from now and needs to contact that author?

>> Is that really a valid and interesting case that can't be (usually)
>> handled by posting directly to the list?

> No, but it's something that happens often enough that I have to worry
> about it, and not often enough that I consider it a showstopper.

<nod>  Different loads.

How about the CGI business as a solution?  You can do that without
exposing the address and while doing due diligence on constraining
abuse.

  ObNote: Apple runs a large enough mail ship that its an attractive
  target in and of itself should you do an automated system like this.
  *THAT* is painful as you can't insert enough entropy into the UI
  behavior without becoming either mappable or unusable -- which
  basically means you end up doing something like a TMDA filter which
  holds the message for the final recipient for a week or so...which
  makes havoc of your storage and bandwidth budgets...

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