P3D Re: Re Disabling spamming via mailinglist archive

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

> >However, it's not that easy to remove addresses from the message
> >bodies as well. But this shouldn't be a real issue as everyone has
> >control over what he's putting in his message.
> 
> BUT, the original archives were spam access protected, so what we put in
> historically didn't matter because it was only available to the subscribers
> of the list. Now, that information is all freely available to anyone.

Yes, you're right.

> I never understood the purpose of the alternate archives in the first place,
> now I understand them even less...

Well, the *-3D mailinglists are just some of my personal favorites.
The other lists, Infrared and Panorama, had no archives and that
was the main reason to make one available. While doing this, I just
threw *-3d in 'for free' (maybe a little forced by not being satisfied
with the browsing, searching, and referencing features of the primary
Calcite archive).

It was - and still is - my hope that this archive will provide some
value to the community, i.e. the list itself but also other interested
parties, as there is a lot of valueable information and knowledge in
there, waiting to be shared.

However, if the list members have considerable concerns regarding
privacy issues than it's probably best to take the archive off the
Web.

Some more opinions?

	Marco
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