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Often, the people who have posted these answers would -be happy to help someone who doesn't quite understand the answer, and don't -mind giving their address out for that purpose. But -although it would be wonderful if everyone could contact each other easily, -we also want to make sure that the list and list archives are not abused by -people who send spam. - -<P> -To make a range of options available to list administrators, Mailman allows -a variety of configurations to help protect email addresses. -Many of these settings are optional to the list administrator, so your -particular list may be set up in different ways. List administrators -must walk a fine line between protecting subscribers and making it difficult -for people to get in touch. - -<P> - -<UL> -<LI>Subscriber lists - -<UL> -<LI>The list administrator can choose to have the subscriber list - public, viewable only to list members, or viewable only to list - administrators. -</LI> -<LI>The subscriber list is shown with the addresses obscured to - make it difficult for spam harvesters to collect your address. -</LI> -<LI>You can choose to have your address hidden from the subscriber - list. (See Section <A HREF="node37.html#sec:nolist">10.4</A> for more information.) -</LI> -<LI><span class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b> -The entire subscriber list is always available to the - list administrators.</span> - -</LI> -</UL> - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>List archives - -<UL> -<LI>The list administrator can choose for the archives to be public, - viewable only to members (private), or completely unavailable. -</LI> -<LI>The HTML archives which are created by Pipermail (the - archiving program which comes default with Mailman) contain only - obscured addresses. Other archiving programs are available and can - do different levels of obfuscation to make addresses less readable. -</LI> -<LI>If you wish to be more sure, you can set the mail header - ``<span class="mailheader">X-No-archive:</span> yes'' and Mailman will not archive your - posts. Similarly, you can set the mail header - ``<span class="mailheader">X-Archive:</span> no'' to disable archiving. - -<P> -<span class="warning"><b class="label">Warning:</b> -This does not stop other members from quoting your posts, - possibly even including your email address.</span> - -</LI> -</UL> - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>Limited posting to the lists - -<UL> -<LI>The list administrator can choose who can post to the list. - Most lists are either moderated (a moderator or administrator - reviews each posting), set so only subscribers may post to the list, - or allow anyone to post to the list. -</LI> -<LI>By allowing only subscribers to post to a list, Mailman often - blocks all spam and some viruses from being sent through the list. - As such, this is a fairly common setting used by list administrators. - -</LI> -</UL> - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>Anonymous lists - -<UL> -<LI>Lists can also be made fully anonymous: all identifying - information about the sender is stripped from the header before the - message is sent on. -</LI> -<LI>This is not typically used for anti-spam measures (it has - other uses), but it could be used in that way if desired. - -</LI> -</UL> -</LI> -</UL> - -<P> -Of course, many address-obscuring methods can be circumvented by determined -people, so be aware that the protections used may not be enough. - -<P> - -<DIV CLASS="navigation"> -<div class='online-navigation'><hr /> -<table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> -<tr> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="11.1 How do I" - rel="prev" title="11.1 How do I" - href="node39.html"><img src='previous.gif' - border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="11 Other common questions" - rel="parent" title="11 Other common questions" - href="node38.html"><img src='up.gif' - border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="1 Email commands quick" - rel="next" title="1 Email commands quick" - href="node41.html"><img src='next.gif' - border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> -<td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - List Member Manual</td> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" - rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" - href="contents.html"><img src='contents.gif' - border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.gif' - border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> - -</tr></table> -<div class='online-navigation'> -<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="node39.html">11.1 How do I</A> -<b class="navlabel">Up:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="node38.html">11 Other common questions</A> -<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node41.html">1 Email commands quick</A> -</div> -</div> -<hr /> -<span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on 7 October 2003.</span> -</DIV> -<!--End of Navigation Panel--> - -</BODY> -</HTML> |