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:
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> --- In Michael Raphael
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>> Does anyone know why the archives of our email list exist outside
>> of Yahoo here:
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>> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/naturerecordists/
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>> All of our email addresses are just hanging out there.
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> 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.
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> 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 :-).
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