Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital 2006-11-09 - By Jeffrey Siegal
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On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:34 , M?ir?n Duffy wrote:
> Barry Brimer wrote:
>> I am not accusing Red Hat of violating their privacy policy. I
>> was simply stating that I happen to have received the email in
>> question to an email address which is used explicity for Linux
>> related mailing lists, therefore suggesting that the source of the
>> email addresses were most likely related to Red Hat mailing
>> lists. I did *not* receive the email in question at the email
>> addresses that I have as part of my Red Hat customer record, or my
>> Red Hat certification record. After I posted my message, another
>> list participant confirmed that (at least) one of the Red Hat
>> mailing lists that I am on has public archives available, which
>> presumably does not have obfuscated or filtered email addresses.
>
> The public archives of RH mailing lists do not display valid email
> addresses, but apparently the monthly gzip archives do. We have set
> the archives to members-only on this list for now.
I'm no fan of email harvesting but given the tradeoff, I still prefer
that archives contain real email addresses. Particularly on a list
such as this one, it is extremely useful to be able to contact
someone (or have someone contact me) about an old issue offlist, to
ask if it has been solved, etc. Requiring membership to access the
archives or jumping through other hoops (such as a server-based
function to retrieve the real address on demand) is of course fine to
obstruct bulk harvesting.
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