[Wolves] New member - narchive.com

[Claire Robinson]

On 31/08/14 07:42, Claire Robinson wrote:
> On 30/08/14 21:07, Ron Wellsted wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have had a person/organisation subscribe to all the mailing LUG
>> mailing lists in the past couple of days.  We were subscribed to this
>> morning.  This has resulted in a flurry of activity on the lugmaster
>> list as this is being view with some suspicion as the given email
>> address is xzxo at ml-in.narkive.net.  I have placed him in quarantine
>> (nomail/mod) until I get some feedback from you, our members.
>>
>> This would not have popped up on the radar if he had used an address
>> like wolveslug at ml-in.narckive.net.  What looks like a random string of
>> chars always looks suspicious.
>>
>> Apparently, narchive (a usenet archive) is looking into expanding into a
>> mailing list archive.
>>
>> As our list archives are publicly accessible so not sure why this is needed.
>>
>> Thoughts/comments please, unless I get some feedback, I will follow the
>> other LUGmasters.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/
>> Mailing list: Wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> Mailing list home: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves
>>
> 
> 
> I think it would have been more 'neighbourly' of them to give some
> notice first, but it's an open mailing list so no reason to block them.
> It may even help to raise the profile of linux or lugs or provide useful
> information to somebody searching for answers.
> 
> Thanks
> Claire
> 
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> 


Having said that, I would hope they intend to provide a read-only
service and not allow non-subscribed users to post to a subscription
only list.