Mailing list archives [was: Dial-up in 8.10]

[Bob Jonkman]

These mailing list archive web sites are fairly common, and, unless 
the mailing list owners run their own archive, the web sites generally 
have no affiliation with the mailing list owners.  They exist to make 
the discussions and advice on the list available to non-subscribers.  

Similar sites are:

 http://mail-archive.org/
 http://gmane.org/
 http://marc.info/
 http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html

Just about anyone can run a mailing list archiver; such software is 
available at http://www.mhonarc.org/

The Ubuntu list managers will likely have no control over the 
presentation of e-mail addresses on the archive sites.  I doubt 
there's anything we subscribers can do to influence the mail archive 
sites.

Consider your postings on mailing lists public, and don't write 
anything you wouldn't want your mother to read.

--Bob.

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On 28 Jan 2009 at 22:57 Eric Cyr <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote
about "Re: Dial-up in 8.10[...]"

>Interesting site, in an overkill kind of way.
>
>Any chance one of the admins here can modify the list format so that we at
>least don't show full email address/not show them at all?
>Maybe just replace "those symbols" with something else(text representation
>or something)?
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Mr. C clark <c_dive at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  nabble.com
>> Our conversation is copied word for word, including e mail addresses.
>> Would that explain the increase in spam mail.
>> I recently turned up my spam filters.
>> Chris.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: c_dive at hotmail.com
>> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: RE: Dial-up in 8.10
>> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:05:30 -0500
>>
>>
>> Now I'm confused?
>> Going to check out nable.com
>> Chris.
>>
>> > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:09:10 -0800
>> > Subject: Re: Dial-up in 8.10
>> > From: rgsteele at gmail.com
>> > To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>> > > Nable.com Someone called Alfred 13 had downloaded to Nable all 214
>> posts
>> > > that I made to Ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com but calls themselves Alfred
>> > > 13. I don't remember having a Nable account. I even see posts by Anita
>> > > Kuno there. There was a link to Emailing Alfred 13, but I didn't have
>> an
>> > > account with Nable. You need to be logged in to use the Link! It looks
>> a
>> > > whole lot like This Alfred 13 person Plagiarized all my posts because
>> > > they are all signed Alfred 13, instead of my sign!
>> >
>> > Nothing nefarious is going on here. Nabble is just a service that
>> > archives mailing lists like this one to make them accessible on the
>> > web. Presumably they've changed the name associated with your posts to
>> > "Alfred-13" to distinguish you from other users named Alfred who have
>> > posted to other mailing lists.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ryan Steele - rgsteele at gmail.com
>> >
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