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

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

There were no counter-arguments to the below after allowing a reasonable
waiting period. Lars & co., please turn off the encryption. Thanks.

>>>>> "BA" == Ben Armstrong <synrg-tLjkLpp138qE96DWgneyJd4JHULOz3QN at public.gmane.org> writes:
BA> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:38 +0800
BA> jidanni-8D0D3YcSAvhAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.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.

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

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

BA> http://gmane.org/faq.php

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

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

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

BA> This page gives details about address obfuscation.

BA> http://gmane.org/tmda.php

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

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

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

BA> Any counter-arguments?

BA> Ben
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