[TriLUG] Gmane

[Chris Calloway]

Mike Johnson wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> Apparently t'was a fleeting thing:
>> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/day=20020618
>>
> The blog post explains things pretty well.  A request was made to add 
> the list to gmane without talking to the SC first.  It then became 
> apparent that, at the time, everyone's email addresses were being posted 
> to gmane without much of an attempt to obscure the addresses.  Leaving 
> the addresses ripe for spamming was something we were uncomfortable 
> with, so made the request to have it removed.

These days, gmane deals with that:

http://gmane.org/tmda.php

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
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