[dundee] TayLUG Mail Archives

[Gordon]

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.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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