Fixing the release-team mailing list on gmane

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:01, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.releases
>
> shows that the group is read-only, which means that I can't post to it from
> knode and have to switch to a different client.
>
> It is very unusual for a kde group to be read only on gmane (I know of no
> other), and I suspect making the release team list read only was a mistake.
>
> Additionally, it is unusual and pointless for kde groups to use sender email
> obfustication. All email addresses can be more easily scraped from
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/. Obfusticating the email
> addresses only serves to make it more difficult to contact someone, and
> makes it impossible to use an email address posted in a message such as '...
> just email john (john at example.com) and ask him' is changed to '... just
> email john (john-RoXCvvDuEio at public.gmane.org) and ask him'.
>
> Please also unobfusticate the email addresses.

Please send future emails of this nature to release-team-owner at kde.org

Ian