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Re: [ietf-smtp] [Shutup] Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers Unhealthy To User Privacy" WG (fwd)

2015-12-03 04:58:26
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 07:21:35PM -0500, Chris Lewis wrote:
Shouldn't this RFC be about obfuscating email
addresses in mailing list archives? 

No, it shouldn't.  I'll leave out the lengthy argument against that
(for now) in favor of the bottom line: having examined that issue
at great length, the conclusion is that it's (a) completely pointless
in terms of security/privacy and (b) greatly diminishes the value
and utility of archives.

---rsk

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