[cairo] Don't print unobfuscated message IDs in your list archives

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:14:02 +0200, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> I would appreciate it if you would not print things on your web page  
> that look like (and are) valid email addresses at my domain, without  
> obfuscation, because the spambots find them in no time and I end up  
> receiving spam to them.

I'm a little confused by the above request. I haven't looked up the
relevant RFC, but isn't the Message-Id header quite under control of
the original sender? At least everything to the left of the @ sign?

So can't you just ensure that what you put there is not a valid email
address and thereby eliminate any spam that would result from
harvesting of Message-Id headers?

> I'm pretty sure it's possible to configure Pipermail/Mailman to not  
> output that, because the following Pipermail/Mailman installations  
> don't do that:

If it's possible, I didn't find any obvious way to do it in a quick
scan of the mailman configuration interface, (and I've never done any
pipermail configuration, so I wouldn't even know where to start). So
you might want to take this up with the freedesktop.org admins in
general, (easiest way is to file a bug in bugs.freedesktop.org against
freedesktop.org or similar).

But wouldn't some people find the Message-Id headers extremely useful
in the archives, since they are a reliable unique identifier for
finding specific messages?

-Carl
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