> On 4 Feb 2004, at 9:50am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why are the archives no longer publicly accessible? > > > > (http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss sez > > "The current archive is only available to the list members.") > > That was somebody's quick-and-easy solution to the problem of email > address harvesting. Given the time demands on the people maintaining > GNHLUG's public resources, quick-and-easy counts for a *lot*. > > I'm not pleased with it as a long-term solution, myself. I firmly believe > the list archives should be open and publicly searchable. (The discussions > on the list can prove to be a valuable technical resource for others trying > to locate information.) Long-term, I would prefer a more sophisticated > spam-guard solution.
I'm not pleased with this either. In fact, I recently encountered a technical problem, did some searching, and lo-and-behold! -- the answer to my question appeared on this very list. The fact that the archives aren't available anymore makes this whole list a lot less useful. > But beggars can't be choosers. :-) I recently sent a script to this list that took care of the task of obfuscating email addresses. I have also heard other people mention on this list that MailMan can take care of this. I strongly recommend that the maintainers of the archive consider these two avenues. Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) alumni.unh.edu!kdc _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss