Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver archives

[John Fletcher]

The freeware version of the discus web forum can email posts to 'watched' topics.  There may be others which do the same.  Much as I like the structure of a nice web forum, if I don't get emailed the posts, I'll never read them.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerry 
> Creager N5JXS
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:08 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Undisguised e-mail 
> addresses in mapserver archives
> 
> 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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