Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] E-mail spam sent to list owners

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:17:32AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:11:03AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:07:52PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > > - more generally I wonder if there's a legitimate use for the '-owner'
> > >   aliases that Mailman creates
> > 
> > These are announced as technical contact for mailing lists, see at the
> > the end of <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd>, for example.
> 
> Sure but I never got contacted through this alias, and the text of the
> mailto: link is the actual e-mails of the admins, so...

Ah, OK, I thought we're wondering in general where these addresses are
advertised.

I've been contacted on *-owner once or twice.

Having Mailman use address@hidden instead of ``direct'' addresses
makes sense for having a generalized scheme that applies to all lists,
address@hidden, and in case that more than one person is
administrator of the list, all of them are reachable through one email
address, cf. <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils>.  Both
of these are not really strong arguments for having address@hidden
addresses, though, so I wouldn't mind removing them if that is what you
had in mind.


Regards,
 Thomas

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