On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > That's a valid point. However mail-archive.com hides the emails addresses > while the Mailman archives show them explicitly (in the "user at domain" > format). Also, mail-archive.com has been active for so long that I think they > would be exposed by now, if they were selling email addresses.
mail-archive.com has never to my knowledge done anything untoward such as selling addresses, etc. Given the number of opensource lists they carry, that sort of thing would be picked up in a short amount of time. They've been around for a long while and they are trustworthy. There are a half-dozen or so of mail archivers currently doing the same thing and it's always good to have multiple copies. Also, there's little you can do to prevent anyone at all from downloading the archives and mining the addresses. > If the website team has the man power right now to provide that functionality > it'd be very nice. If there already is something like that, I admit I didn't > bother to look too much for it as I was also thinking that it'd be good to > have the emails archived somewhere else for safety and history preservation. We don't and why reinvent the wheel? Google indexes the archives pretty well and the mailman archiving mechanism, pipermail, is old and not equipped for such things like searching or rss feeds, which I added in last year, but it's not optimal. mailman3 is supposed to add some of these sorts of features in the future, but it is still in the alpha release stage. e. _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list website-discuss@opensolaris.org
