Hi Kris, Understandable, and a noble goal.
Several companies/organizations/groups have overcome this issue by altering or obfuscating the email addresses of posters when archives are viewed via the web interface. Yahoo Groups comes to mind - they list the first letter of the user's hostname followed by "..." The solution seems to work reasonably well. If a person is interested in contacting a list subscriber regarding one of their posts, they can join the list and post a polite inquiry. thomas park --- Kriston Rehberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, sorry. The AOLserver mailing list archives are only available to > subscribers of the mailing list. Being a subscriber does not mean > you have > to get emails every day, it just means you are a registered user of > the > mailing list. This is the only way to protect the list and its > subscribers > from spam harvesters. You can set the mailing list settings to > "NOMAIL" and > you remain a subscriber but don't get any mail. > > Kris > > PS...This issue comes up every couple of months in our support queue. > The > policy is firm and is intended to protect the mailing list and its subscribers. > > thomas park wrote --- > >Hello everybody, > >Please excuse me if this particular horse has been beaten before. > >I was wondering if it might not be productive to have the mailing lists >be publicly readable / searchable without requiring a user to register >and activate a username? > >I think that people might find the software a little more friendly and >accessible if it were made a little easier to access information >pertaining to it. > >Perhaps we could have a fast, HTTP accessible mirror of the mailing >list that didn't require all of L-SERV's overhead (including the >username registration bit)? > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/
