On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Chuck Mead wrote:
> Sadly... Red Hat doesn't have on-line archives. I archive the list at
> moongroup.com.
>
> Try http://www.moongroup.com/redhat.phtml
On the one hand, I applaud your efforts... on the other hand, I'm not real
keen about having my email address posted on the web in machine-readable
form. This attracts spam as well as legitimate email. There's even a
company based not far from my office that sells spamming software
specifically designed to facilitate this kind of thing.
I don't know what percentage of the list I can speak for when I say this,
but I really don't like spam and I do all I can to avoid it. This
includes keeping my email addresses off the web (and using temporary
aliases for public forums (fora?) like this one - "linuxlists" is not my
regular userid).
Anyhow, when I ran and archived my own mailing list, I used a perl script
to munge all of the email addresses in the hypermail archive.
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" gets turned into "user(at)host.com" thoughout the archive.
I figured that was just bad enough to escape the spam spiders but still
just good enough to allow real people to make contact. The perl thing is
not the most efficient thing by any means (my list had only a dozen or so
people on it) but it might be a place to start. I'd be happy to provide
you with a copy.
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Assume just 4 million businesses on the Internet today...
If 1% of them sent you one piece of junk email per year,
you'd still have to wade through over 100 messages per day.
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