[ale] (no subject) SPAM talk...

[Geoffrey]

Marvin Dickens wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 10:42, Jay Finch wrote:
> 
> 
>>>William Wylde wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why bother to obfucate at all?  Why not just write a little script that
>>>>removes the e-mail addresses from the posts in the archive?
>>>
>>>Why have an archive?
>>>Until later, Geoffrey    
> 
> 
> My two cents:
> 
> How about leaving the person's name in the email, but removing the email 
> address? Anyone who subscribed to the list can figure out the email address
> from the name. Besides, in the event I am looking through the archieves, I'm
> looking for information regarding How-To-Do-Something and I'm not looking 
> for email addresses. 
> 
> Having the name of the author of the email is enough for me regarding 
> determination of the probable quality of the information.

That's not the only purpose of the archive, as someone else and I've 
noted, it's also to benefit the the non-ale member.


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft