[TriLUG] Concerns about public mail archives (was: The Samba Question you posted about printing)

[Jon Carnes]

Okay.  I converted the "@" (at signs) to the initial's ".a.t."

Boy is that going to make this message look weird when viewed through the 
archives!

Jon
 --- Original Message: Tuesday 30 April 2002 09:53 am ---
> > How about just putting a space after each at sign? Or, are the
> > email-address harvesters smarter than that? This method has the
> > advantage that no information is lost during the removal of email
> > addresses from the archive.
>
> +1.  if the script could just replace the @ sign with something like (at),
> that should discourage spam harvesters, without rendering the content
> unreadable for people who actually want to use it.  i'm very much in favor
> of this approach...
>
> > Or maybe a 'members only' archive with
> > addresses?
>
> -1.  i think having our archives public is a good thing; there's a wealth
> of useful information in there, and i'm in favor of sharing it.
> maintaining two parallel archives (public and private) would be a waste of
> disk space and admin cycles.  i think there are better ways to skin that
> cat. :)
>
> 							lisa