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Bug 48106 - Hide sender's e-mail address
Summary: Hide sender's e-mail address
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: obsolete
Classification: Unclassified
Component: collabnet (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P3 blocker with 2 votes (vote)
Assignee: issues@www
URL:
Keywords:
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Reported: 2004-08-28 02:39 UTC by Jiri Hana
Modified: 2009-11-08 02:33 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Jiri Hana 2004-08-28 02:39:21 UTC
It would be great if senders' e-mail addresses
were removed from the posts to the mailing lists
(in both e-mails and web archives) to prevent
spammers from harvesting them.
Comment 1 Asrail 2004-08-29 02:05:53 UTC
What about to use '@netbeans.org' mails?

I've asrail@netbeans.org, per instance.


I don't agreed to hidding the mail, because of the spammers and no
cordial people.
Comment 2 Jiri Hana 2004-08-29 16:08:05 UTC
I think that's a great idea. 

And maybe the first step can be rather simple - to create a web
interface for posting to the mailing lists - it would show the
@netbeans.org address. People who do not care about these things would
use the current mailing interface.
Comment 3 serzh 2004-08-30 08:08:56 UTC
Agreed
Comment 4 jcatchpoole 2004-08-31 13:40:44 UTC
Removing addresses from the actual emails that are delivered to
someone's mailbox would be a bad idea I think - you should be able to
see who sent the msg, and reply to them if you want.

Using your @netbeans.org address is an interesting idea, and actually
some ppl on the lists already do this ... but you must configure your
account with another email address, where mail will really be
delivered, so you will still get the same spam.  You can of course
then change your account name, the spammer's still don't have your
real address ... but we're not really escaping the problem.

"Obfuscating" the addresses on the site is the best soloution I think,
though just simply like "webmaster at netbeans dot org" for eg.

Removing them from the web archives : absolutely should be done, and
unfortunately is an old duplicate : see issue 33201.  Due to
CollabNet's (who host and provide Sourcecast, the infrastructure that
netbeans.org runs on) closing policy, that issue is marked
closed/fixed, even though the fix is not available until some future
version of SourceCast.  I don't know when we will get that future
version :-/

Addresses should already be obfuscated in the GMane archives AFAIK
(Gmane does this).

There is one other related issue : obfuscating any address which
appears on the www site (in content, not archives).  That's my issue :
issue 43615.

Closing this as a dup of issue 33201, since that is the most critical
issue.  If you disagree pls reopen with details.

Unfortunately your votes here will not be moved when I close this one,
so if you want please do go to it and vote again (maybe with more
publilc pressure we can ask Collab to provide a fix sooner than the
next release ...).

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 33201 ***
Comment 5 Marian Mirilovic 2009-11-08 02:33:50 UTC
We recently moved out from Collabnet's infrastructure