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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.
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.
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.
Agreed
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 ***
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