Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > I posted code and patches earlier on this list, but the patch is against > Mailman 2.1.15 rather than Mailman 3, which is the current development > focus. I imagine it's rather different. The code is organized quite differently, but I suspect that the handler archite

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 14:39 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > Any chance of requesting this in Mailman 3? > > As usual, the advice is to file a bug report/RFE on Launchpad, Mailman > project, tag it Mailman 3 (or maybe that's milestone Mailman 3?) > > If you want

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Any chance of requesting this in Mailman 3? As usual, the advice is to file a bug report/RFE on Launchpad, Mailman project, tag it Mailman 3 (or maybe that's milestone Mailman 3?) If you want more discussion from the core people (well, Barry; Mark's presumably already

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 21:07 -0400, Dave (FitEyes) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Lindsay Haisley > wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 20:42 -0400, Dave (FitEyes) wrote: > > It now seems pretty clear that we can use these reports in the way > > Lindsay and othe

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi/create and local use - trouble...

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
gene wrote: >I have a lan with several machines on it. I've installed MM 2.1.14 on the >unix host 'genesis' which also runs my apache server. In order to browse to >genesis' web server from within the lan, I have to use something like: > "http://genesis/mailman/listinfo"; >Using the fqdn (genesi

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Dave (FitEyes)
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 20:42 -0400, Dave (FitEyes) wrote: > > Now that you motivated me, I actually read the blog post too: > > > http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2008/08/13/more-on-the-upcoming-feedback-loop-conversion/ > > > > It now seems p

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 20:42 -0400, Dave (FitEyes) wrote: > Now that you motivated me, I actually read the blog post too: > http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2008/08/13/more-on-the-upcoming-feedback-loop-conversion/ > > It now seems pretty clear that we can use these reports in the way > Lindsay and o

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Dave (FitEyes)
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Russell Clemings wrote: > I'm surprised to read in this thread that the terms of service for AOL's > feedback loop forbid us from using its reports to identify users. > > The page where you sign up for the FBL seems to say just the opposite (end > of third paragrap

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Russell Clemings
I'm surprised to read in this thread that the terms of service for AOL's feedback loop forbid us from using its reports to identify users. The page where you sign up for the FBL seems to say just the opposite (end of third paragraph): "We suggest using opaque identifiers for the email recipient o

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Dave (FitEyes)
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:51 PM, William Yardley wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:58:46PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I have no idea why AOL wants to make it difficult for list > > administrators to unsubscribe people who don't want to be subscribed > > and who complain to AOL about list

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:51 -0700, William Yardley wrote: > I think the point of the > FBL is more to alert you to problems on your network What problems??? I'm running a collection of opt-in Mailman lists, administered by FMP's customers. There are no problems. > eYes, people will click the "r

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread William Yardley
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:58:46PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I have no idea why AOL wants to make it difficult for list > administrators to unsubscribe people who don't want to be subscribed > and who complain to AOL about list posts being spam. To prevent listwashing or retaliation, for one

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Mike Starr
This has been a fascinating discussion that I've been enjoying very much. However, one thing we need to remember is that we, as list administrators, usually (but not always) have far greater insight than the average user into the realities of what spam is and what spam isn't. Most of us underst

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > provided to properly unsubscribe from a list, so they just find all the > list posts that they can and report them as spam, hoping that AOL will > help them unsubscribe. Which is exactly what AOL's feedback service is designed to prevent. :-( More irony The sad

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Well the implementation I've developed for use with Resent-Message-ID > incorporates a random factor into the AES encryption so that every > encryption of the same address is different, although all decrypt > properly using the key with which they were encrypted. Thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Geoff Shang writes: > > Ah, but we can just say "this allows us to VERP without exposing > > addresses on anybody's disk; this helps protect your users' privacy." > > Oh the irony. Thank you for noticing! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:05 -0400, David wrote: > Furthermore, without exception on our list, when an AOL user triggers > a feedback report, they do so on all the emails from our list that are > currently in their inbox. There is zero content-specific selectivity. > I've never seen it (on our list)

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 03:30 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > EVERP = Encrypted VERP > > Ever heard of "Occam's Razor"? Yes, I'm quite familiar with it :) > Most folks who run Mailman lists can't > expand "VERP", and wouldn't understand the expansion when told.

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread David
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > David writes: > > > In terms of privacy, as list admins we already have the member's > > information. All we are doing in this case is helping that member stop > > receiving messages they obviously no longer wish to receive. This is

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:17 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Nice try, but we still can't define AOL's policy for them. AOL's > claim is that we need to fix our spam problem, not unsubscribe the > member, Isn't that the same thing? The object is to prevent the complaining recipient from recei

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >From a practical point of view my EVERP proposal may not be a good > scheme for dealing with AOL's redaction policy in Email Feedback > Reports. Although it would obviously fool the existing automated > redaction process, a radical change to th

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > EVERP = Encrypted VERP Ever heard of "Occam's Razor"? Most folks who run Mailman lists can't expand "VERP", and wouldn't understand the expansion when told. It's not obvious to me that practioners would get it right, either. Let's not proliferate unnecessary acronyms

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 13:23 -0700, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Larry Stone wrote: > > > And the problem that I'm trying to fix is that their user has > >violated MY TOS regarding reporting list mail (that they subscribed > >to) as spam. That AOL sent their Feedback Loop mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:25 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Brad Knowles writes: > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > It might be very convenient to have what one might call EVERP, where the > > > recipient address is encrypted into the envelope sender address

[Mailman-Users] cgi/create and local use - trouble...

2012-06-19 Thread gene
Hi All: I have a lan with several machines on it. I've installed MM 2.1.14 on the unix host 'genesis' which also runs my apache server. In order to browse to genesis' web server from within the lan, I have to use something like: "http://genesis/mailman/listinfo"; Using the fqdn (genesis.domain.n

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Kirke Johnson
I love a recursive solution. ;-} Kirke Johnson Internet: kjohn...@pcc.edu Email Administrator, TSS , Sylvania Campus Portland Community College, Portland, OR, USA (971) 722-4368 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > The irony is not lo

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: > On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > It might be very convenient to have what one might call EVERP, where the > > recipient address is encrypted into the envelope sender address, as an > > alternative choice to Mailman's VERP implementation. It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David writes: > In terms of privacy, as list admins we already have the member's > information. All we are doing in this case is helping that member stop > receiving messages they obviously no longer wish to receive. This is > clearly not an invasion of privacy (especially with a properly encr