Re: A little more privacy

[Lute Kamstra]

Christoph Dalitz <address@hidden> writes:

>> address@hidden writes:
>> 
>>> Perhaps we could try out Mailman? It's a fairly sophistimicated
>>> doo-hickey with a lot of cool features:
>> 
> No need to switch to different software, as it can be done easily
> with the current combination of a hand crafted script and mhonarc.
>
> @John:

[...]

>
> Thus this is no technical problem, but the general questions whether email
> addresses of list participiants should be posted over the web or not.
>
> When the addresses are publicized, non list members (including spammers)
> can contact list members. The question is whether this is wanted or not.
>
> It might be that being spammed is the price to pay for using free software,
> but I were glad if this could be avoided.

I fail to see why this problem is specific to free software.  Isn't it
a general problem of web-archived mailing lists?  The problem can be
solved by deleting email addresses from web archives and adding
buttons that give you those email addresses.  This way, spider bots
don't find the email addresses, but humans do.  The GNU mailing lists
use this solution.

  Lute.



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------