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Subject: Re: Wanted: list to conceal each subscriber's email addr from other subscribers
From: bwarsaw @ python . org (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:33:41 -0500
To: Mark Giorgi <edgeflare @ yahoo . com>
Cc: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
References: <20021221113333.406.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com>


>>>>> "MG" == Mark Giorgi <edgeflare@yahoo.com> writes:

    MG> I'd like to see this option because due to concern about
    MG> revealing their email addresses some people either (a) won't
    MG> join an email list or (b) join but then don't post.

Well, you could run Mailman in anonymizing mode, but then you'd lose
all information about the poster in the exploded message.

    MG> Is there any technical reason for which this feature
    MG> couldn't be created or couldn't work?

It would probably be a 5 minute hacking job for a reasonably
proficient Python programmer to add this feature to Mailman.  Let's
say 15 minutes to plumb the configurability all the way through to the
web interface.

    MG> Would the market demand for this feature perhaps be so
    MG> tepid that no one would bother to develop it?

Probably so. ;)

-Barry


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