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

[Richard Hill]

There are two archives as Karl points out.  I just changed the settings for 
the archives created by the list software so that they are now password 
protected.   List-Archive: <http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sigia-l/>

I do not view myself as the "owner" of this list; you folks are the 
owners.  Jim and I are the administrators.   Discussion of what you want -- 
hidden/public senders, public/private archives, etc. -- is welcome.  We'll 
do what we can with the settings.

Dick Hill

At 10/31/02, you wrote:

>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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