webby list archive administrivia (was Re: Tek 1230)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Mon Jun 23 18:30:00 2003

"Erik Klein" <classiccmp_at_vintage-computer.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came across your 8008/8080 web page while searching for ...
>
> I've noticed a fair number of these types of posts lately. Basically
> it comes down to the address munging that's being done to prevent
> spammers from harvesting is also preventing legitimate browsers from
> identifying the authors of messages individually.

No, they can identify the author by name. What it really comes down
to is that the address munging provides a mailto: link which makes it
easy for folks who find the archive pages to generate an e-mail
message to the list (which is OK), and that these folks don't realize
that they're about to post to a mailing list and that providing some
context would be a good thing. If they realized that, they could
perhaps write "w/r/t foo's message to this list on date mm/dd/yy on
the matter of bar" or even copy and paste some of the webby archive
page into the message.

What might be helpful would be for the webby archive pages to not have
that link right next to the poster's name, but instead to have a "post
a follow-up to this message" link somewhere on the page. I have no
idea how to do this using pipermail though.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon Jun 23 2003 - 18:30:00 BST