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Subject: Re: Our Email List Archives
From: "Steve Duncan" swduncan
Date: Fri May 21, 2010 7:01 am ((PDT))
I haven't had a problem with spam since '05. Switching to gmail was  
the cure, although I hear Yahoo and the others are just as good.

Given the abysmal search capability that Yahoo makes availabe for  
groups, I don't mind the list being archied.

Steve Duncan | www.swduncan.com

On May 21, 2010, at 8:41 AM, "astrobirdr" <> wrote:

>
>
> --- In  Michael Raphael  
> <> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know why the archives of our email list exist outside  
>> of Yahoo here:
>>
>>
>> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/naturerecordists/
>>
>> All of our email addresses are just hanging out there.
>>
>
> Mostly likely someone on this list is associated with the site and  
> have an email-to-web system setup so that every post gets converted  
> to the web.  I manage a few birding related mailing lists which are  
> mirrored by more than one website.  Fortunately the subscribers that  
> run those sites are savvy enough to obfuscate the email addresses of  
> posters so that the spammers don't harvest them.
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't a way to stop anyone from doing exactly  
> what you've discovered.  So I just choose to live with it and keep  
> my spam filters up-to-date :-).
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie  
> Krause
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