From jexom@altern.org Mon Feb 03 15:39:03 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr ([213.228.0.169]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fqAz-0006n6-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:38:57 -0800 Received: from altern.org (nas-cbv-5-62-147-147-145.dial.proxad.net [62.147.147.145]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106DDC07D for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:38:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:37:37 +0100 Subject: [lojban] What about obscuring addresses in the mailing-list archives? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: jexOm. To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis In-Reply-To: <20030203210316.GH20552@digitalkingdom.org> Message-Id: <7A7F9708-37D0-11D7-9DA8-003065E00134@altern.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-archive-position: 4003 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jexom@altern.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list coi. rodo .i mi'e jexom. Let's go for this discussion... Robin has created an archive for the two mailing-lists, which is a very good thing, thanks a lot Robin. In these archives, e-mail addresses are not obscured (as they are in YahooGroups archives for example). I think it would be a good idea to do the same thing. Below are excerpts of a discussion I had with Robin. Robin prefers to leave the addresses in clear. What do you think? I hope this won't start a too long thread... Jérôme. >> Note that MHonArc has an >> option to obscure e-mail addresses. > > I didn't actually know that. That annoys me, > though, because it means > people can't reply to mail in the archives. >> PS: Back to a previous topic about obscuring the archive e-mail >> addresses against spambots, I still think it would be a good idea, >> since addresses are still received in clear in individual messages, >> and since the goal of a mailing-list is not to send individual >> messages but to share concerns with the list. >> But it's your decision, dear web/post-master :-) > > I prefer not, but if you want to ask the list, I don't mind. > > -Robin