[dundee] TayLUG Mail Archives

[Robert Ladyman]

Open is fine by me

> I had an incident where a recent subscriber had a suspicious email address
> and on investigation found that there was a strong possibility that this
> person could be a spammer as he was joining up on various U.S. LUG email
> lists (certainly exhibiting suspicious activity) so I blocked that email
> address.
>
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/I9O5CeqRI4D3hghJJfGQ
>
> Last night on the LUGMaster list another U.K. LUG reported this email
> address subscribing to his list and I reported back my findings so that all
> the other LUGS can check if he had subscribed to their mailing list. At
> present our mail archives, including email addresses, are fully open to the
> public. The Lurker database on the TayLUG website, which gets updated
> monthly, has been set to show no email addresses therefore it is safe from
> spammers. Other LUGs have their mail archives set to be read by members
> only in order not to give out email addresses. I want to go through the
> democratic process in asking our list members whether we should keep our
> mail archives fully accessible and open to the public, including email
> addresses or change it to members only. I will only make a change if there
> is a clear majority wanting this change.
>
> Gordon
> TayLUG Administrator

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