Undisguised e-mail addresses in mapserver archives

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

I could live with something like this!

gerry

Jeff Portwine wrote:
> 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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>>
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