<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Yeah, it's always great to get insulted when posting to Linix forum = "unlike you".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">If these are the hoops we are expected to jump thru in order to post to the Ubuntu mailing lists then count me out.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">This will be my last post to this list since apparently I will have to wait 2 & 1/2 years for it roll off the archive logs.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Subject: Re: Email visible to all<br>To: <a href="mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><br><br>
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I also no dot like my email to be visible in the web mail list.
However, unlike you, I looked and got informed first before I joined
the mail list - then I created a funny email address at <a href="http://outlook.com" target="_blank">outlook.com</a>
(which you can see) that I use only for this list.<br>
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Outlook.com blocked this email address once last year. I could see
all my emails and receive emails from this list, but they did not
allow me to send emails (so I could not respond). I had to go one
month over microsoft email support to get back access. They told me
it was somehow compromised - however there were no emails send from
or deleted from it. I guess someone had guessed the password or
something like that given my initial password was relatively weak.<br>
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Once they restored my full access, I changed the password to a
random string of maximum allowed length. My desktop email client
remembers the random password. So it could be that just by using
this list your email gets compromised if you password is weak.<br>
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Anyway even if they remove your email from the web, a spammer could
in theory be also a (respectable :) member of this list and can
still see all emails via the email program. The best would the mail
list software does not send the emails at all, but it is too much I
think to ask them change it. The email are also referenced by the
email program when you reply, so your email now ends up also in the
message body text (I put ... for your email in the quoted text in
this answer :).<br>
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<div>On 20/08/14 21:45, Richie Bloss wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Thanks
I will work this from a different angle & try to contact
someone from the <span style="font-size:13px">main </span>lists
page, perhaps they can remove references to my name/email.</font></div>
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<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Open
shouldn't mean avail for spammers to grab your email.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM, ∅ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carsrcoffins23@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ca
.... @yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> I am<br>
> concerned that a security hole is present.<br>
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It seems this is not consistent with the definitions one can
find, such as:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hole" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hole</a><br>
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> When I did a Google search on my name yesterday an old
post to the *mailing<br>
> list * dated 7/22/2013 appeared with my gmail id.<br>
<br>
It's obfuscated. Spammers are not likely to make much use
out of it.<br>
<br>
If you're trying to hide your email from the Internet, then
that may<br>
be a problem, but that's totally consistent with the
ENTIRETY of<br>
Ubuntu's mailing lists. If you have a problem, you need to
bring it to<br>
Ubuntu as a whole. There are ways around this given the
software used<br>
(mailman), but it's not Lubuntu's fault. You should look at
the main<br>
lists page and find some people to contact there:<br>
<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/</a><br>
(yes, all those lists have this problem)<br>
<br>
> Also I can access the The Lubuntu-users Archives
without any login process<br>
> & my along all other email (gmail) addresses is
there for anyone to see.<br>
> This seems like a large breach in security to me. Am
I incorrect?<br>
<br>
This is the default for mailman, actually. Not hard to fix,
but it<br>
does need to be applied universally and Ubuntu as a whole
would need<br>
to agree with it.<br>
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Good luck,<br>
wxl<br>
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