Email in archives (Was Re: [plug] mandrake)

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Jan 14 18:07:38 WST 2005


Timothy White wrote:

> > I'll send you his email address privately so it isn't splashed around in 
> > the archives...
> 
> Just jogged my memory. Does the plug archiving software obscure emails
> in the body or just the header?

It makes an attempt at removing them from the body as well.  I'm still
of the opinion that this is a misguided practice but people complain
if I don't :-)

> Also, I believe my email address is still in the archives due to it
> being in my PGP signature or something. Any ideas how I can stop that?

Don't use PGP?  Seriously, though, if your e-mail address is in your
GPG key then it'll also be available via the web interface to
keyservers, on pages like
    http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/henkp/pgp/pathfinder/stats/1DAE5673.html
    http://minsky.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=tim+white

Cameron.




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