> I know that Kevan posted that he's working on getting his archives back
> up, but a question in the meantime...
> I've been thinking of making a new archive of the list available at
> retrobytes.org (starting with this month); any comments/concerns/advice?
Well, why not.
I have all messages since June 1998 in a save mail folder,
so I'll do all search localy (And if I have some spare time
somebody should remember me to put the files to my Mac, so
I may use Sherlock for searching).
> Do I have to get anyone's explicit permission to do this?
If it's relevant, you got mine.
> Lastly, assuming I go through with this, would people prefer that I set
> Mhonarc to obfuscate everyone's email addresses? The benefit, of course,
> is that a spammer's address crawler couldn't pick up everyone's addresses
> from the page like they do on newsgroups; the drawback is that people
> wouldn't be able to directly contact the authors.
I don't care about this. Of course, SPAM rate did increase a bit
over the last two month, but it's still less than 1 per day not
covered by my filters.
To be honest, I don't like false (call as you like it, it's forgery
in my mind) mail addresses. It's just wrong in my opinion. And just
because some stupid marketing guys send out stuff to my addredd, I
will not spoof myself.
I have a mailbox at my house, and get an average of 3 advertisements
per day, and I'm included in the Robinson list and have a big (A6 size)
sticker saying 'Keine Werbung' (No Advertisement) at the mailbox -
should I now put up a false name tag ?
> If the general feeling is that you'd rather the addresses be hidden,
> perhaps I could create two archives...one private for classiccmp list
> members to search the archives *with* addresses, and one public with the
> obfuscated addresses.
Why not, this may be a possible solution - is there a chance to
opt in for unchanged address on both archives ?
Gruss
H.
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