James Newton, Host wrote:
> So, I'm going to drop the private status and allow anyone to view the
> archive.

Big deal.  Given that all that stuff is out there already, security at your
site is pointless.

> Before I do that, I'm going to review the munging of email
> addresses, both the person who posts and any email addresses found in
> the body of the post, just to make sure it is pretty darn
> "mungerific."

Why bother?  It's all out there already.  Spammers found my piclist-only
email address years ago, and I get the same amount of spam on it as my real
email addresses.  Unless you enjoy doing this, closing the barn door after
the horses fled, died of old age, and the rest of the barn burnt down is a
waste of time.

In a perfect world it would be nice to keep the archive private.  People say
different things when they think they are talking privately to a closed
group versus expecting it to be recorded for all to see for all time.  The
only real problem I see is folks that may have thought they were having a
closed conversation in days past will now have it made public.  But there's
nothing that can be done about it, so there's no point fretting about it.
Nobody that's been paying attention could possibly have the illusion that
anything they say today on the list will remain private.

In other words:  It sucks, but that's the way it is.  Get over it.


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