This one time, at band camp, SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: >Mary Gardiner wrote: >> On 2006-05-30, Terry Collins wrote: >> >>>Who was responsible for this bright idea? >>>If you are goingto start passing out the slug list in bulk to spammers, >>>I would like all address at woa-com-au pulled, please. >> >> >> I'm not sure who's reponsible, the gmane.org mirror dates back several >> years at least. > >I can see that it contains stuff back to 2002, but I have been totally >unaware of it until you posted it.
1995 in fact. The email addresses that are published on gmane.org are munged. The email addresses published on google groups are munged. SLUG has had mailing list archives since who can remember way back when. They've also had email addresses munged since about 2002, when the ctte I was on set that up. Are you going to now say you had no idea that SLUG itself was archiving the list publicly too? Your arguments against public archives of the list are pretty weak. As a professional user of Linux, publicly available archives are one of my most-used tools to get work done. I rely on gmane, google groups, user group archives via google, and project mailing list archives again via google many times a day on average. If those were gone, our only recourse would be to pay thousands of dollars in training courses to large corporates, who in the end might still not have the answers. What a pompous elitist attitude to have to say that SLUG is above all that, that our archives must be closed to only SLUG? We used to have one of the juiciest page ranks because of the quality of our mailing list archives. Again, it all boils down to community. I refuse to allow my community to be held hostage by the antisocial behaviour of internet terrorism. I am in favour of the gmane archive, the google groups archive, and the archive hosted on SLUG itself. In fact, we could probably do with more. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
