[Sigia-l] a plea regarding the list archive & junkmail

[karl fast]

The issue that Andrew raises was caused first by the searchable
archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/, then by the
ASIS&T archives which came later.

If, as a group, we feel this is important, someone will have to
modify the info-arch.org site. If that doesn't happen any changes to
the ASIS&T archive will be moot.

I understand Andrew's plea. However, the cat is out of the bag. I'm
not sure how much retroactive filtering will help.

Filtering the public archives would only help those willing to
create a new address for use on this list. ie: create a new address,
unsubscribe the old one, subscribe the new one.


ASIDE: I have always subscribed to public mailings lists with the
       *expectation* that the list will have a searchable public
       archive, that my address will probably be harvested, and I
       will get spam.

       SIGIA-L is, by my definition, a public list--anyone can
       subscribe to it, they need no permission to do so, and they
       can read/post/unsubscribe as they wish.

       I dislike spam as much as everyone else, and begrudge that
       I've had to install spam filters (I now use Spam Assassin;
       works great). I view this as the price I pay for
       participating in the net, though I do miss the days when I
       posted to Usenet without thinking of such things.
       
       I continue to post my address with abandon and deal with the
       spammers the best that I can.



--karl


> ADMIN - I just changed the settings in the software, making this an 
> "anonymous_list (privacy)"  That will hide the sender of a message, 
> replacing it with the list address (Removes From, Sender and Reply-To fields)
> 
> I realize this could hinder inter personal communication.  If there are 
> comments or suggestions on this, please reply off-list.
> 
> This will possibly help for the future.  Since the mail software we use has 
> a password protected archive, I'm not sure that is the problem.
> 
> Dick Hill
> 
> 
> At 10/31/02, Andrew Hinton wrote:
> >In the hope that removing it from the archive might somehow help to curtail
> >further junkmail buildup, I wonder if there might be a way to organize an
> >archive cleansing of some sort, to mass-edit with a search-and-replace so
> >all the "
> >@" signs get replaced with "@NOSPAM" or something?
> >
> >And I wonder if this has happened to anyone else?
> >
> >--
> >andrew
> >www.memekitchen.com
> >
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