[rhelv6-list] RH lists munging From: header

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list]

Wait --

looking at that archive text file, 

https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2013-February.txt.gz

I see the email addresses of EVERY SINGLE poster in plain text 
in the first line of each email entry:

>From mschwendt at gmail.com Mon Feb 25 15:36:38 2013

So if some bot would like to harvest email addresses, they don't need to
subscribe to this list and look for the small fraction of 'envelope-from'
email addresses, they can simply download this file and get them all!

So I really think we should stop discussing this now, and just 
change these lists back so that we can see who is sending what, 
without having to do the above ourselves ... ;)

Cheers,

	Horst

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 \(Santiago\) discussion mailing-list" <rhelv6-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:23:50 -0600, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 \(Santiago\) discussion mailing-list wrote:
>
> > Interesting. I looked through all the recent emails I got,
> > and I didn't find a single one which had an email address in the headers
> > or envelope. A few domains in the Reference sections, but no complete
> > email address. Maybe that depends on the receiving mail server ...?
>
> No, the sending one advertizes it:
>
>    $ wget https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2013-February.txt.gz
>    $ zgrep envelope-from 2013-February.txt.gz 
>    ...
>
> :-p
>
> > Either way, I'm not trying to argue FOR this anonymizing of the posts,
> > I'm arguing AGAINST it. :)
>
> Of course.
>
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