antlr-interest added to Gmane

[Ric Klaren]

Hey folks,

I'm not sure wether one of you added us to this list....

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Gmane Administrator wrote:
> We  have received  a request  for adding  the antlr-interest at onelist.com
> mailing list  to the Gmane mail-to-news  gateway/archive. A subscription
> request  message has  been sent.  If this  is contrary  to  your wishes,
> please send  a mail to admin at gmane.org  saying so, and the  list will be
> removed from Gmane.

I had a look at this site and in the current settings it allows once more
easy email address harvesting.

If you add a header like this to your mails then your email addy will
obfuscated:

X-Archive: encrypt

> Gmane is a mail-to-news portal that never expires its messages.  It
> therefore also functions as a mailing list archive.  It's a
> bi-directional gateway, but Gmane verifies that its users' email
> addresses are valid before passing the messages through the
> news-to-mail gateway.  (Groups can also be made "read-only", which
> means that Gmane won't forward any messages at all to the mailing
> list.)

> Gmane can encrypt addresses to make address harvesting difficult, and
> heeds X-No-Archive and related headers.

Might be an idea to request making this the default...

> If you wish to import older archives into Gmane, send a message to
> the Gmane administrators with the URL of a Unix mbox archive of the
> mailing list.

This might actually be an interesting option since the search of
yahoogroups is completely and utterly useless nowadays. I do not know
wether you can get an mbox archive from yahoogroups though. I'd actually be
interested in a dump of the complete archive just to be able to effectively
search in...

Cheers,

Ric
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