[Debian-eeepc-devel] permission to turn off gmane encryption of debian-eeepc-devel

[Ben Armstrong]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:38 +0800
jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Can the administrator of debian-eeepc-devel please give permission so I
> can ask gmane to turn off address encryption on
> http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/
> It is driving me nuts and other debian groups are not encrypted on gmane.

Huh.  I don't recall requesting the creation of debian-eeepc-devel at
gmane.  And if someone asked me on the list or on irc, I have no log of
the conversation.

That being said, if we have a consensus that it should be turned off,
as the list administrator, I can presumably contact gmane to make
changes, as per:

http://gmane.org/faq.php

	I'm a list administrator, and I don't think you should archive
	my list.

	No problem. Just send a mail to Lars, and he'll remove the
	list.

Well, we don't want the list removed, just a setting changed.

This page gives details about address obfuscation.

http://gmane.org/tmda.php

So, let's discuss this, shall we?  It seems like a reasonable request,
given that:

1. If a particular user does want their address to still be obfuscated
in gmane, they can make use of "X-Archive: encrypt".

2. Since our publicly-accessible mailman/pipermail archives only mildly
obfuscate addresses in an easily crackable form (by using " at "
instead of "@"), one could argue the addresses are already out there for
harvesting anyway, so having the addresses obfuscated by gmane doesn't
actually help very much.

Any counter-arguments?

Ben
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