[Mailman-Developers] Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code from Mailman 3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Bernd Siggy Brentrup wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:03 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>> What I'm thinking is that there should be a "send me this message"
>> link in the archive, which gets you a copy as it was originally sent
>> to the list.  That let's you jump into a conversation as if you'd
>> been there originally.
>
> Another use case comes up when coming back from temporarily disabled
> delivery where you want to participate in an ongoing discussion. I've
> always dreamed of a ml-request at listdomain function that retransmits
> any messages in References to me.  It's clear that MM has to delegate
> this to the archiver.

I dream of a 'vacation' setting where you could tell Mailman the start  
and end dates of your "delivery stop" and then those messages would  
just be forwarded to you (perhaps as a digest) upon your return.   
Almost exactly like what the US Post Office does IRL.

>> Something like this would be cool for another reason.  Assuming you
>> could trust the long term storage at the archive site (enough) it
>> would eliminate the last reason why I locally archive any public
>> mailing list messages.
>
> ... indicating your internet connection is by orders of magnitude
> better than mine :)

And yet, it's never enough! :)

> To get on topic again: regarding address obfuscation in the archives,
> I noted:
>
>  - obfuscate by default,
>  - the archive admin may choose not to obfuscate but this fact
>    will be stated clearly on every archive page à la:
>    Email addresses are visible per choice of mailto:archiv-owner.

Yep, something like that.

-Barry

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