[abcusers] speed of mailings archives
I've been watching how the speed of the discussion on this list has picked up since I put the new fast mailserver in place. It's making me smile :-) I am currently working on putting the entire archive of postings for the list from the past few years online and indexing the postings with Thunderstone search. I know some folks on here are sensitive about having their email addresses visible on the internet. I could avoid that by password protecting the archive(s). If the list members think that is a good solution, or have a better solution, let me know. Thanks! Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] speed of mailings archives
I've been watching how the speed of the discussion on this list has picked up since I put the new fast mailserver in place. I dunno about the speed (given how slow my machines are I could hardly tell) but having a real honest-to-god From line at last is a *huge* relief. I am currently working on putting the entire archive of postings for the list from the past few years online and indexing the postings with Thunderstone search. I know some folks on here are sensitive about having their email addresses visible on the internet. I could avoid that by password protecting the archive(s). If the list members think that is a good solution, or have a better solution, let me know. Thanks! A better solution would be to edit out the email addresses and replace them by names or handles so the archive ends up looking like a typical web discussion board (e.g. Mudcat). I don't mind who sees the content of what I've written so long as it doesn't lead to even more spam than I'm getting now. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] speed of mailings archives
Toby writes: | Jack Campin wrote: | A better solution would be to edit out the email addresses and replace | them by names or handles so the archive ends up looking like a typical | web discussion board (e.g. Mudcat). I don't mind who sees the content | of what I've written so long as it doesn't lead to even more spam than | I'm getting now. | | I could write a script to do that.. I'll just replace anything after @, | but before the . with a bunch of x's. Or maybe just rewrite the @ as AT or : as others do. This seems to be something that humans can handle but is typically beyond the capacity of software that is grovelling through zillions of web pages and can't afford to use much intelligence. I've also noticed that my MIT email addresses are in lots of usenet archives, but this doesn't seem to lead to much spam. I suspect that spammers have learned that archives tend to be full of outdated addresses, so they try to avoid them. (So maybe the thing to do is to change all the dates to 10 years earlier. ;-) Actually, I get a lot more Microsoft email viruses than spam. I've tried to tell them that it doesn't do any good to send viruses to someone who reads his email on a FreeBSD or linux machine, but they don't listen to me. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
