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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1617948880; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=XEDPRa5Qt8clc4YR3e3Veow6OZlzo2SbhJ5AajtfQVg=; b=pAg/fBt60lV8rG4dG5KLEgdIjL40j/1sz/+WxrPYDMz6iipmhTICTQSU2q9p+Tt3wS3cRS rzHtH0OCPvrrYDKE01e7iiFB2yxJ49c2DqNcjaBzBhLplpdxYkgmpXJ3KECA3giNr/xBR+ sp7zSdRAZyjNttjqeGLC8EQR+9CuM96ipT1i5AwBnYCQwo0ZYt0XdPFLeGIkJVfT4rh+ya SMJ2zjLFLJTrJOOSWhvH6+q/+YwWvvi0Fzp2c8S8pXCk9XVxfDmee9R4qCDKygL7Tw1vlj apz3kmC+GD7p1eIRQWwD2r7zpX2plK6mg8TExxXyVVVCXZg2qw63aRBz0mJyEA== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1617948880; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=sKZ6n/c2hgb/+4rF0eIQvPViEfLvddE+HwSoJmj1WdH3YOTm0R2e+VrFGMlxHIweN+LsO8 dcA5+HByW/HSse22Mcb+mg/4zAIviBABEg5L7b/FFxUATJMIFJ4wqZciJZNBZK/lnNVf7u zYo0LE4lI+7417cTwFHqOR7hn1f1xlk1Z01nr6WR5mPbrrvqdp/vp5HXGzWdBk2droIwwF lZtCtoFscljohbl0hrOPLL0Gf3q36Tu8YiTLDb6Kng69NEztkxiIPZ2mko/enyG60QyQUB dbeWZl0Jo8TdHGHny6VNrjSS2dBWVilJa/0A9SreWSuYNbjgf/TXw2Dz/HnJqg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=kyleam.com header.s=key1 header.b=BYQtjQ1i; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.64 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=kyleam.com header.s=key1 header.b=BYQtjQ1i; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 7955B258E0 X-Spam-Score: -2.64 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: 7c3M34L6TNX3 Guillaume MULLER writes: > Hi all, > > I recently sent an email on this mailing list (see > https://orgmode.org/list/b1e778c5-acbf-8a17-c9bf-dcb6693e9845@univ-st-etienne.fr/ > ) > > Since then, I'm receiving spams on the email address I used to send > the message. > > After some research, it seems that this email address only appears on > 2 websites, notably this orgmode.org mailing list archive. Your email address can also be harvested from the lists.gnu.org archives. Inspect the output of $ curl -fSsL https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2020-07/msg00125.html $ curl -fSsL https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/emacs-orgmode/2020-07 > Would it be possible to configure the archive to obfuscate / hide the > email addresses inorder to protect its users? and its upstream source are public-inbox () archives. There's an option (disabled by default) to configure address obfuscation. However, in my view email obfuscation is giving you a false sense of security. Ignoring other ways spammers get your address, you're posting to a public space, and your address can be harvested (and, as shown above, not just from these public-inbox archives). And this isn't something specific to Org mode's archives. Just as some examples, take a look at , , , or . Anyway, that being said and despite my opinion on this, I'm considering turning on obfuscation at and . There's at least one issue that'd need to be fixed before doing so though: .