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| Date: | 19 Feb 2001 at 17:33:07 |
| Subject: | Re: Members Postings Going to Aminet |
Hi Giles
> > It states on the egroup that archives are for *members only,*
> > Members only, to me means, NOT the general public....
>
> But the general public can just as easily peruse the archive on
> eGroups/YahooGroups, which is arguably easier through a web browser
The general public cannot, if the group has been set up so that archives are
for members only, which I think Colin meant. Only people who have subscribed to
the list can look at the archives on the YaheeGroups site.
> that route. So I don't quite see where the problem lies with the Aminet copy of
> the archives?
AmigaGuide docs are just text files. Spammers getting a hold of them can just
do a simple text scan for anything which has an @ sign in it and extract the
bits around it.
As a user of the YaheeGroups site, you can set it so your email address never
gets fully disclosed (i.e. just placed straight into one of the web pages) - to
email someone from a list, you need to follow the link that is their email
address and then post via the site form.
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