David Andrews wrote: > >Is there any reason >to not let them do this?
I think they are unscrupulous. I think that no one should archive any list without an affirmative opt-in request from the list owner. Further, my lists which answerpot has attempted to archive all have private archives. For someone to attempt to subscribe to such a list for the purpose of publicly archiving list posts is just plain wrong. >My sponsoring organization is involved in a >lot of public education kinds of things, and want to get the word >out. Is there a negative, or spam risk, or something to letting them >archive? You'd have to look at their existing archives and decide for yourself. It appears that they hide email addresses, but I don't know how thoroughly. The main thing for me is I consider them to be unscrupulous for not requiring positive opt-in and for attempting to archive lists whose archives are not public. I would not want to support their practices and their ad revenue with my list's content, even if that content were otherwise publicly archived.. >And ... finally, why do they need multiple subscribes to >the same list? Who knows? Maybe to increase the chances that at least one of the subscribe attempts will succeed. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org