[wellylug] Personal info on the mailing list

[Simon Antliff]

On 6/13/05, Ewen McNeill <wellylug at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> wrote:
> FWIW, the Wellylug archives account for less than 2% of my spam (based
> on the spam in my spamtrap over the last copule of weeks; approximately
> 2000 messages).  Probably significantly less considering over 50
> spam message a day are getting through to my main mailbox at present
> (50*14 = 700).[0]
> 
> If the !Cabal wants to make some decision to:
> (a) carry on as we are; or
> (b) not have mailing list archives; or
> (c) password protect the mailing list archives; or
> (d) do something else
> 
> then I'll see what I can do about implementing it.  The suggestion (from
> someone previously) that I modify the mailing list archives so that they
> don't contain email addresses is officially Too Hard (tm).  (Mailman
> already obfuscates email addresses in most things it displays, but
> can't do anything about email addresses in the body of the messages.)
> 
> Ewen
> 
> [0] I can tell this because I use this email address solely on Wellylug posts.

I vote for (a). Spam is inevitable.