[Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> > >From a practical point of view my EVERP proposal may not be a good
> > scheme for dealing with AOL's redaction policy in Email Feedback
> > Reports.  Although it would obviously fool the existing automated
> > redaction process, a radical change to the contents of the VERP address
> > in the envelope sender would probably attract the notice of a real
> > person, no matter how clueless.
>
> Ah, but we can just say "this allows us to VERP without exposing
> addresses on anybody's disk; this helps protect your users' privacy."

Oh the irony.

Geoff.