On 5/27/07, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hi list,
I'm not aware if this question has been asked on this list or not. But why the damn mailman gives out email addresses in quotes? I'm talking about this:
On ..... Dinesh Joshi dj@xyz.com wrote:
sadasdas ....
Well I can see that gmail quotes the email address as well. Also, there seems to be no way to customize that behaviour; and if anyone knows of one then please let me know.
I know technology can't solve all user incompetence but can't mailman
Everything depends upon what you believe to be user incompetence. Inability to edit simple config files can also be termed as user incompetence.
just obfuscate mail addresses in quotes? I've been harping over this for a long time. Each time I tell people to configure their MUA not to quote my / anybody's email address but it'll be much easier if mailman can screen the messages for email addresses in quotes and remove / edit them out?
There has been a thread on this once before. I think I was the 'guilty party' then (or was it Manoj?). Honestly, if you want so much privacy then why do you get out of your computer on to the interweb? Participation in a public mailing list implies that you do not mind strangers wanting to talk to you or email you. If you want to ignore someone then you flag him/her as spam. Your mail service provider will do the rest.
And can you imagine that there are certain lists that don't remove email addresses even from the headers? The debian lists, gtk-list are ones I know and am signed up to. And just imagine the disaster when you put in your email address as maintainer in your FOSS code that gets mirrored over hundreds of servers and all of it is indexed by good ol' Google. Or would you prefer putting in your phone number/postal address instead?
Strangely, despite all this I've hardly ever seen any spam in my Inbox; it's all in the Spam Bin.