[Mediawiki-l] Public Reposting of this List

[Monahon, Peter B.]

[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.. at 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.