On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 09:54:02 AM +0200, io ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have said just that publishing ALSO the sender address *is* a good
> thing that can help other users, and surely helped me: I have found
> several times people mentioning in mailing list "I'll write a macro
> so-and-so": they never published that macro, but were happy to share
> it with me when I contacted them, and happy that their hack had been
> found interesting. But I would not had had the possibility to
> contact them without the list archive keeping their address.
I forgot to add that this also worked the other way around. Just last
tuesday I did get a direct message from one guy who said, more or less
"In February 2005, you wrote in that Linux list that task XYZ should
be done so and so. What did you mean exactly?". I unsubcribed from
that list many months ago, so I would not have seen any request of
clarification there, but thanks to the archives retaining my address I
was able to help that guy.
For the record, this second case is what is _explicitly_ given, in
many other lists I follow, as THE reason why they WILL store and
publish email addresses.
Ciao,
Marco
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