One step further from Exquisitus
In our continuous quest for improving accessibility to content, this morning I removed the password protection from the newsgroup NewsPortal (a.k.a. the Simple Web Interface.)
This couldn’t be done until the messages displayed by the NewsPortal were completely SPAM-proofed — meaning e-mail addresses everywhere in the message were mangled in some way so that they cannot be parsed by spambots. Access to the news server itself, news.eclipse.org, is still password protected because I don’t have an easy way to mangle e-mail addresses.
Bear in mind that some web sites mirror or link to eclipse.org content without this level of protection. EclipseZone, for instance, mirrors many eclipse.org newsgroups in its Forums section, but fails to mangle e-mail addresses in the message body as shown in this message. If you see other websites that mirror eclipse.org content without protecting your privacy, please open a bug against eclipse.org.
In the last year, we’ve managed to remove password protection from mailing list archives, news archives and now from the NewsPortal. One step at a time, we’re moving further from Exquisitus.
Posted November 7th, 2005 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Denis Roy Says:
November 7th, 2005 at 10:46 am
A quick e-mail to EclipseZone fixed the problem. Ed confirms they’re now mangling e-mail addresses in linked forums.
I get the odd e-mail saying “since I did XYZ at eclipse.org I now get SPAM.” It’s hard to keep track of who is mirroring what and how, so let us know if you see something fishy.
isaacxu Says:
November 24th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Last Chance to cast your vote for Eclipse at JDJ.
Now “best Java IDE” vote result is Eclipse/IntelliJ IDEA:2118/2160, so I think it need to post a link at Eclipse web site.