Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver archives

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Because I, for one, don't have the time to go to a web page and peruse
the various discussions?  I can efficiently see the topics, file
interesting "stuff" away for later use or reference, and delete the
trivia.  Going to a web page and sorting through all this is tiresome at
best and looks to me like a waste of time.

Personal opinions.  But that'd be my vote if it comes to one.  The list,
as a monolith, in fact, and not subdivided into a whole bunch of
separate sublists.

gerry

S.Nicolas - Webmaster wrote:
> Totally agree, lots of open source forum available, easy to set up.
>
> Stéphane
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Portwine
> Sent: 20 May 2005 13:27
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver
> archives
>
> I know this is offtopic, but since this was brought up... it kind of leads
> into a question I've had for a while.   Is there any particular reason that
> we use an email list instead of like a web forum for this kind of
> communication?   It seems like opensource projects like this one tend to use
> email lists instead of forums, but it seems to me that there are a lot of
> advantages to a web forum such as easier searching and threaded messages, as
> well as the ability to post announcements and sticky-note a FAQ would make
> it the preferred method.   It would also solve the spam problem as email
> addresses can pretty much always be hidden.   I'm not opposed to email of
> course, was just a question I  had.
>
> -Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacob Delfos" <jacob.delfos at MAUNSELL.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:57 AM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver
> archives
>
>
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Sorry if this has been brought up before, but the spam problem is
>>taking on worse forms for me. Since I have been on the mapserver (and
>>related) mailing lists, my e-mail address have been appearing a lot on
>>the internet, in a completely undisguised way. The amount of spam I
>>receive has since been rising rapidly. Additionally, my address is
>>being spoofed lately, such that I occasionally get 100s of bounced
>>messages that I didn't send, to people to whom it could not be delivered.
>>
>>I was hoping it might be possible to configure the mailing lists such
>>that e-mail addresses are disguised (even if it is poorly, by
>>replacing occurrences of @ with 'at'). I know that I could set up a
>>special "mailing list" address, but that makes things a lot harder to
>>manage, and people would still send spam in my name.
>>
>>My address does not appear anywhere else on the internet, so I am
>>quite sure that the archives of the mailing lists are the cause. It's
>>not that I'm trying to complain, just that a small change could save a
>>lot of people a lot of headaches.
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Jacob
>>
>
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