On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 04:04 am, <stanhopi@...> wrote:
but what does 'fig-leaf' in the above-quoted text
mean. It
It means to hide the email address by removing everything after the "at" sign and substituting ellipses. Email addresses are still figleafed in the archived (i.e., web) version of messages, except for email addresses ending in .io. So if I post my email address here:
j.olivia.catlady@...only people reading via email will see the entire email address. If you read this message on the web, you will see
j.olivia.catlady@...
There was a long, hard debate on the beta group nearly a year ago about this "feature." Some people (including me) were strongly against it, arguing that the email addresses are available in the email version anyway, so hiding it on the web accomplishes little if anything; the other side wanted to keep it for "privacy" (even though the email addresses are still totally accessible to people reading via email, their argument was that they are not preserved forever in the web archive). Mark finally agreed to make the figleafing an optional setting, but he has still not implemented that. So the email addresses are still figleafed.
However, I recently discovered that the email addresses of messages from group members to the owner address of a group are figleafed also. That was not necessary because the address is seen by no one except the group moderators. So I reported it to Mark and he fixed it. This is the change reported in the change log this week.
J
