Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua-l archive at lua-users.org

[james@...]

Please, if you can. And please don't take this
one minor complaint as negative overall. This
archive is really nice to have.

> I would be opposed to stripping addresses because that would decrease
> the utility of the archives.  I'll see if I can't add a little
obfuscation.

People can post to the list to interact with list
subscribers. imho there is no need to print email
addresses "in broad daylight". we don't need to
give spammers any more help than we need too.

http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-l-digest

Ack, I had no idea this was available. Since there are now
two list archives which (hopefully) strip addresses, can we
get stuff like this shutdown by the lua folks? You can replace
the "daily archives" with a link to John's archive. I don't
think the zipped / ftp archives are a problem. Just the stuff
that's web based.

Regards,
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Belmonte" <jvb@prairienet.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua-l archive at lua-users.org


> james@mathies.com wrote:
> > This is really nice compared to yahoo's egroups mess these
> > days. But, unfortunately I have one complaint: each post has
> > unprotected email addresses just waiting for a spam harvesting
> > program.. would it be possible to strip / protect email addresses
> > in the posts somehow?
>
>
> It's possible, but perhaps such measures would have little effect
> because the addresses are already available to harvesters by other means
> (archive links at http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html).
>
> I would be opposed to stripping addresses because that would decrease
> the utility of the archives.  I'll see if I can't add a little
obfuscation.
>
> -John
>
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