[Buildroot] Emails being substituted when reading via Gmane NNTP

Waldemar Brodkorb wbx at openadk.org
Wed Jun 22 18:23:00 UTC 2016


Hi ALexey,
Alexey Brodkin wrote,

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 10:52 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> writes:
> >  > Hi Thomas, Peter,
> >  > I'm wondering if that's an expected behavior or my NNTP reader is broken
> >  > (even though both Evolution's built-in reader and stand-alone Pan reader
> >  > behave exactly the same so probably it's not a client who's guilty).
> > 
> >  > So when reading Buildroot mailing list via NNTP client connected to Gmane
> >  > I see this kind of information in message source in Evolution's NNTP reader:
> >  -------------------------> 8---------------------
> >  > Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
> >  > From: Romain Naour <romain.naour-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> > 
> > I believe that is an intentional feature of gmane to make it more
> > difficult to harvest email addresses:
> > 
> > http://gmane.org/tmda.php
> > 
> > According to that page, this is something you as a list maintainer can
> > control (but users can enforce it for their mails).
> 
> So for Buildroot your guys intentionally enabled that feature?
> 
> Even though idea is nice still in the "original" Buildroot list
> all emails are displayed as they are, see
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-June/164199.html:
> ------------------------->8-----------------------
> Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com 
> ------------------------->8-----------------------
> 
> Given that probably that's not much sense in doing email obfuscation
> in Gmane? IMHO it adds more trouble for good people than adds problems
> to bad guys.

I disabled address encryption for uClibc-ng mailinglist, does it work now for you?

best regards
 Waldemar



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