I'm going to add to this, because I think this is where the issue arises.
There are a lot of users who won't even /look/ in the help or FAQ for an
address to contact Pidgin at. Most people assume that there is a
[email protected] address and therefore assume it's private.
My only recommendation would be to somehow have a /filter/ email of some
sort, that when a user NOT subscribed to the list emails it, they are
warned that this is a public email list and then given an option to
continue sending the email, to cancel the email, or to join the list.
I've seen lists done in a similar manner, and I believe this might be a
viable solution (though I'm not sure if the current list software
supports it).
-Michael
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: I am installing Pidgin in Firefox. ????
From: Brian Morrison <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 12/14/2009 1:34 PM
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:54:59 -0800
Paul Aurich<[email protected]> wrote:
And Brian Morrison spoke on 12/13/2009 11:59 PM, saying:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:49:04 -0600
Richard Laager<[email protected]> wrote:
Also, you provided what you're claiming are passwords to a PUBLIC
MAILING LIST.
You know, there really needs to be a clearer indication that mailing
[email protected] sends mail to a public list with many hundreds or
thousands of subscribers.
This has been discussed before and changes were made to just about all the
places where one could find the mailing list address.
OK, I will admit I had not looked, because I know this sort of thing
already. But many recent Pidgin users apparently don't.
If there's any way you think it could be clearer, please provide SPECIFIC
suggestions, instead of a vague "It should be made clearer".
OK, well my specific suggestion would be to put capitalized text in the
description of the support list address stating not to post user IDs or
passwords in any mail sent to that address.
I see it already shows in bold text that it is a *public* mailing list,
I can confidently say that I have spoken to many people who do not know
what that means without it being explained to them, so perhaps a short
sentence saying that any message they send to it is read by a large
number of people and that IM user IDs and passwords MUST not be sent to
the list.
Is that clear enough?
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