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[alexandre.vai...@gmail.com]

Could the owner of the address that auto-replies when they're driving disable their auto-reply from/to this address?

Thanks!

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 17:40, OpenSceneGraph Users <osg-...@lists.openscenegraph.org> wrote:

Could the owner of the address that auto-replies when they're driving disable their auto-reply from/to this address?

Unfortunately these posts are coming in without any way to figure out which account is sending them.  If I could trace it I'd disable the account/contact the account user directly.

So for now I just have to hope they'll realize and fix things.

 

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[nmiel...@gmail.com]

How are you not able to tell who is sending these posts? Isn't that a prime opportunity for spam messages if you can't forcefully remove users who are abusing the mailing list?

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On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 20:30, OpenSceneGraph Users <osg-...@lists.openscenegraph.org> wrote:

How are you not able to tell who is sending these posts? Isn't that a prime opportunity for spam messages if you can't forcefully remove users who are abusing the mailing list?

Mailman is presently anonymising the sender, which helps prevent users' mail addresses being used by bad actors, but alas it also means I don't have a way I can see of the poster.  If Mailman has a facility that would allow me to track the poster then I welcome suggestions.  Perhaps it can be configured back to not anonymising poster till we track down the problem account.   

[alexandre.vai...@gmail.com]

As I understand, the OSG mailing list is linked with the google groups. Would it be an option to stop using the mailing list and only use the google groups?

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Hello,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 09:05, OpenSceneGraph Users <osg-...@lists.openscenegraph.org> wrote:

As I understand, the OSG mailing list is linked with the google groups. Would it be an option to stop using the mailing list and only use the google groups?

On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 5:39:34 p.m. UTC-4 OpenSceneGraph Users wrote:

 I think the correct fix is to stop the anonymization in Mailman. It is largely counterproductive because on the off-chance that some address gets harvested for spam or harassment it is now difficult to conduct any meaningful discussion. And booting an abuser or user who has a misconfigured e-mail account becomes nigh-impossible. I have not seen any other larger project do this.

If someone has issues with harassment or spam due to the addresses harvested from the list, it is easy to create throw-away addresses using e.g. Anonaddy.com.

And re Google Groups - switching to that wouldn't really fix anything, the problem is not Mailman as such but that it is explicitly configured in a silly way. Groups show the sender addresses in the e-mails and on the website too if you are a group member.

J.

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[Daniel Trstenjak]

> It is largely counterproductive because on the off-chance that some address
> gets harvested for spam or harassment it is now difficult to conduct any
> meaningful discussion.

Yes, I really dislike it not being able to see the sender. After some
time you know which people write high quality posts on a list and
might prefer to first read their posts in threads.

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Hi All,

I have been tempted to just adopt google-groups as the only support forum. I've kept the mailman list around as it was still functionality and in theory possible to integrate with the google-groups, though I've never been able to configure things to work properly.

I have gone into the mailman web interface and toggled off the option "Show member addresses so they're not directly recognizable as email addresses?" and we can see what happens next..

Cheers,

Robert.

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Am 07.10.20 um 09:03 schrieb OpenSceneGraph Users:

https://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node20.html
2.7 The Privacy Options Category

https://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node24.html
2.7.4 Spam Filters

https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/contact.html
Most of the developers, and lots of users, also hang out on the #mailman
channel on the freenode IRC network.

hope that helps or they can help

best wishes

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Being this an oversight, maybe it would suffice to filter that exact
string, if possible.

The bad thing is that if it were intentional abuse, it seems that there
would not be any way of stopping it.
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Alberto

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Mailing list settings have reverted so I can't trace the problem sender... I've changed the setting again to see what will happen this time....

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