tz list searchable on Google
Chuck Soper
chucks2 at veladg.com
Tue May 23 16:59:34 UTC 2006
At 11:40 AM -0700 5/22/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Chuck Soper <chucks2 at veladg.com> writes:
>
>> Right now the tz list is very focused and low volume.
>
>That's because Arthur filters out the spam.
>Mere exposure via Google wouldn't change that.
>
>What exposure might change is:
>
> (1) Arthur might have more spam to filter, if more spammers notice
> the list and send email to it.
>
> (2) Spammers might send email to you directly after harvesting your
> address, bypassing the tz list entirely.
>
>(1) is unimportant, since the mailing list address itself is already
>widely available.
>
>(2) is an issue, but it isn't that big a deal, I think. The gmane
>archive shrouds email addresses in a silly security-through-obscurity
>mechanism that probably works well enough in practice. I suppose it's
>a bit like tzarchive.gz in that respect.
I agree.
>I like having searchable archives, and I like having the contents of
>the email (not counting email addresses) being public. If the tz list
>went underground its utility would be greatly reduced.
I didn't mean to suggest that the tz list should go underground. I
just wanted it to stay the same. Because gmane site's has been
archiving tz list since July 2004, I believe that my concerns are
unfounded. Any change that might have occurred has already happened.
I like having searchable archives as well.
>People who want to send email anonymously to the list can do so
>indirectly by emailing it to me.
Thank you,
Chuck
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