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On 11/9/2006 2:34 PM, ??? 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.
This won't do a lot of good for people who really want them. Grab the
mailing list archives at AIMS
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=taroon-list&m=116310448631811&w=2) and
you can see it's pretty easy for a bot to rewrite a header like:
From: M??ir??n_Duffy <duffy () redhat ! com>
The simple fact of the matter is that if an email address is used on a
public list, you can assume that somebody somewhere will figure out a
way to get it. It's not that hard for somebody to sign on to the last,
grab the archives, and the unsubscribe. This isn't Red Hat's problem to
deal with.
.../Ed
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