I'd vote to keep it open although to be fair I don't post on it a lot. Masked e-mails could be a good idea aswell. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Open is fine by me<br>
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> I had an incident where a recent subscriber had a suspicious email address<br>
> and on investigation found that there was a strong possibility that this<br>
> person could be a spammer as he was joining up on various U.S. LUG email<br>
> lists (certainly exhibiting suspicious activity) so I blocked that email<br>
> address.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/I9O5CeqRI4D3hghJJfGQ" target="_blank">http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/I9O5CeqRI4D3hghJJfGQ</a><br>
><br>
> Last night on the LUGMaster list another U.K. LUG reported this email<br>
> address subscribing to his list and I reported back my findings so that all<br>
> the other LUGS can check if he had subscribed to their mailing list. At<br>
> present our mail archives, including email addresses, are fully open to the<br>
> public. The Lurker database on the TayLUG website, which gets updated<br>
> monthly, has been set to show no email addresses therefore it is safe from<br>
> spammers. Other LUGs have their mail archives set to be read by members<br>
> only in order not to give out email addresses. I want to go through the<br>
> democratic process in asking our list members whether we should keep our<br>
> mail archives fully accessible and open to the public, including email<br>
> addresses or change it to members only. I will only make a change if there<br>
> is a clear majority wanting this change.<br>
><br>
> Gordon<br>
> TayLUG Administrator<br>
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