On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 00:30 +1000, SLUG subscriber with a provocative title wrote: > The issue isn't what you do with your email address, but what slug has > been doing with it and whether it should continue to freely send everyone's > email address out into the broad internet.. It certainly doesn't make this > clear when people sign up. > > Is it too much to suggest that we stop providing a feed willy-nilly > until other users > demonstrate they can protect our email addresses. As has been pointed > out, the > content is a valuable resource and we should take steps to protect its > future value..
The list administration pages make it fairly clear that you're signing up to a public mailing list. That'd be the completely unfettered SMTP feed we've been sending out willy-nilly to anybody capable of passing a simple challenge-response check. Both the gmane and the Google guys have proved that's a snap to automate - it's how they're both getting the raw material for their obfuscation filters. If you're really suggesting we subject every subscribed address and all future requests to a Turing test, and then make them promise to abide by your cutely antagonistic little disclaimer, then you're welcome to wear my list admin beanie while you're doing it. It's got a rather fetching bobble on the top. But over here in the real world, I for one only have time for a retroactive response. Every time gmane has come up on the list I've taken a quick look, decided they were doing enough to obfuscate addresses, and moved on. Now that it seems to be an issue, though, I'll start adding an X-Archive header (as soon as I'm awake enough to work out how to do that with evo), and have a look at what's reaching me via gmane. Would be nice to have some real figures instead of wild gesticulation. > -- > This message is copyright and may not be re-transmitted > in any form without the prior written permission of the > author. This posting confers permission only for the > transmission on the original list to which it was sent. > Permission is not given for retransmission by any other > means. Once again, I'll let you use my beanie while you clear up SLUG's web archives. While you're there, maybe take a look at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2000/11/msg00522.html > ...................................................... > Help give a clueby to undereducated people by siharing > these email address around. > > <insert private and work emails of past slug committee, > web and list personell. Hey, if you canshare mine, > then I can share yours {:-)}}}}> Hi, I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] , guilty of all the above, and still doing list personell - type stuff after almost four years of putting up with threads like this one. If you think I'd do all that purely to sell you out, fine, put my address wherever you damn well please. I could even suggest some other places to insert it, if you like. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
