[old - from Mon 5/7/2007 - I'm catching up on my reading!]
Michael wrote: ... I don't want the spam!
Peter Blaise responds: Two points:
1 - other lists I belong to republish to the web and cause the display of email addresses
to become non-functional (by puting spaces in the email address, eg. me @ isp . com, or
truncating them, eg. m..@i..c.. and so on. Is this automatable and easy and acceptable to
contributors here?
2 - Spam happens, get over it. ... and blaming non-spammers for spam happens, too, I
guess. I'm getting over that right now! ;-)
3 - The list archives are public anyway, see
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ (and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2007-May/020195.html and search
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2007-May/thread.html for
"reposting" for THIS very thread!)
4 - No one sends spam to anyone who posts to an open source discussion group because they
know we're too cheap to pay for anything! ;-)
Okay, 4 points.
-- Peter Blaise, internet spam collector since day one, my slogan: "billions and
billions deleted", that is, AUTO deleted. I hardly see spam anymore.