[ILUG] Hmm - old ilug site?

[Guest, Ken]

<webmaster mode>
I'd prefer that we do not go down the route of password
protecting the public (ilug@, cork@ et al) mailing lists
for 3 reasons:
1. Imposing passwords on those mailing lists goes well
   against the grain and there is no good reason why
   the solutions, support and tech conversations provided
   in those mailing lists should not be available for any
   one to read. 
2. Do you seriously want yet another password to remember?
3. Considering the reason why imposing passwords on the
   mailing list archives has been suggested it makes much more
   sense to merely obfusicate/semimangle the email addresses
   contained in the postings.
</webmaster mode>

Ken

#-----Original Message-----
#From: David Murphy [mailto:drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie]
#Sent: 15 May 2000 10:26
#To: ILUG
#Subject: Re: [ILUG] Hmm - old ilug site?
#
#
#Quoting <CKEHJINMGKLBFEBJHANPKEPMCDAA.adam at iewebs.com>
#by adam beecher <adam at iewebs.com>:
#
#> > nah - it probably was taken from the online archives, 
#possibly when they
#> > were hosted on skynet which you didn't have to type in 
#anything to browse.
#> >
#> 
#> That reminds me - that pipermail installation on the ILUG is 
#responsible for
#> crazy amounts of spam flooding in my direction. I've avoided 
#it with the same
#> address for nearly six months now, but it's starting to pour 
#in again, and I
#> *can't* bloody well change my address now. Couldn't someone 
#hack it up a bit to
#> obfuscate the addresses? I get enough of the crap through 
#"regular spam
#> channels" without this...
#
#Or just restrict the archives so people need a mailman password to get
#at them.
#
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