Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver archives

[Jeff Portwine]

I've actually configured a nice combination solution,  it is the phpBB forum
with the m2f (mail2forum) addon mod.    It allows forum users, if they
choose, to have all posts emailed to them... they can then reply to the
posts or to create a new post they can email the post  to the forum and it
will be posted on their behalf.   It's a very nice hybrid solution....
people who like forums go to the forum,  and to people who like email better
it's pretty much indistinguishable from any other email list.

-Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Fletcher" <jfletcher at LATITUDEGEO.COM>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver
archives


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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