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Mailman: Consider hiding real list administrators email addresses
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See here and here as examples, although it applies to nearly all lists. We should offer the possibility not to display the real email addresses of the list administrators. Avoids spam and improves privacy. Thanks.

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 ResolvedNoneT150164 Mailman: Consider hiding real list administrators email addresses
 ResolvedNoneT166944 Upgrade to mailman 2.1.22+

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MarcoAurelio created this task.Nov 7 2016, 10:29 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 7 2016, 10:29 AM
Aklapper added a project: Upstream.Nov 7 2016, 11:08 AM

This needs to happen in the upstream code of Mailman. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558180

Aklapper renamed this task from Consider hidding real list administrators email addresses to Mailman: Consider hiding real list administrators email addresses.Nov 7 2016, 11:08 AM
Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.
Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.
Dzahn subscribed.Nov 9 2016, 8:30 PM

It's already hiding them in a way. If you hover over that you will see that the actual mailto: target is not their real addresses, but the special -owner address.

MarcoAurelio awarded a token.Jun 12 2017, 10:58 AM
Aklapper added a subtask: T166944: Upgrade to mailman 2.1.22+.Jun 15 2017, 11:30 PM

T166944 would fix this. I guess.

• fsero closed this task as Declined.Jun 4 2019, 10:38 AM
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This task has been inactive for 2 years, so I'm closing it please reopen if this still needed.

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Legoktm reopened this task as Open.Jun 4 2019, 3:42 PM
Legoktm subscribed.

Still an issue.

• ema moved this task from Backlog to General on the Wikimedia-Mailing-lists board.Jun 24 2020, 1:51 PM
Peachey88 closed subtask T166944: Upgrade to mailman 2.1.22+ as Resolved.Sep 13 2020, 4:23 AM
Legoktm closed this task as Resolved.Sep 13 2020, 4:37 AM

This seems to have been implemented now. I checked a few lists which say something similar to:

Wikimedia-l list run by wikimedia-l-owner at lists.wikimedia.org

Legoktm mentioned this in T272778: Show listadmins (names or email addresses?) on main page of each mailing list.Jan 23 2021, 10:08 PM
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