On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:33:48AM +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
I do have to ask though, what's up with third-party systems creating a web accessible archive of the mailing list? Worse, with them not fudging email addresses when doing so?
1. (in reply to the original) I haven't received anything from them here yet, but it may have been rejected at the perimeter. When I get a chance this evening, I'll check logs and see if I turn up anything. 2. Yes, it's quite rude for third parties to set up (public) archives of mailing lists without the prior, express consent of the owner(s) of those lists. I don't see a problem with individual members of such lists maintaining their own (private) archives -- and I routinely do so for every list I'm on. 3. But it's utterly pointless to obfuscate addresses in such archives: spammers have long since set up quite efficient methods of harvesting any address used on any public mailng list or Usenet newsgroup. [1] The only people meaningfully impeded by these futile attempts at obfuscation are legitimate senders. ---Rsk [1] Someone should explain this to Google in re their Usenet archive: spammers have NNTP feeds, too.