Nabble seems to do a reasonable job of hiding email addresses and so is
probably not selling you out to the spammers. They /could/ be doing that,
but so could any subscriber to the list. It is very unlikely that someone
would publish the fact that they subscribe to the list (as nabble does) and
then doing something like that. The silent lurker is more likely to use your
information in a bad way.

Nabble must be subscribed to the list in order to post to the list for their
members. The first time they post some crap or one of their users gets out
of hand, nabbles account will be moderated or just removed. We run the
PICList, and so what gets on it is still very much under our control and our
responsibility.

I like the user / post rating thing nabble does. I've been wanting to add
something like that to the "official" archive for some time and just haven't
gotten around to it.

While it would be a darn good idea if nabble would be a bit more clear that
the content they are displaying did not originate from nabble, and instead
came from the piclist or whatever other lists they display, they are not
apparently making money from our posts and do appear to be providing a good
service for others. Our little link is on the bottom of every post anyway,
so in some sense we are spamming for ourselves.

We are a public forum: I got no problems...

Other admins may feel differently. If anyone can point to any specific
damage or concern, let me know about it.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Pergola 
> (sent by Nabble.com)
> Sent: 2005 Dec 17, Sat 19:46
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] sent by Nabble.com?
> 
> 
> Uh oh, I'm one of the "guilty" people here.
> 
> The other day, I thought I could provide some insight to a 
> thread, so I sent a message to the PICList (via Nabble) to 
> explain that many PIC18F parts can be bulk erased with a Vdd 
> voltage less than 4.5 volts (with respect to Vss) -- at least 
> from the documentation's standpoint.
> 
> I hope I have not broken any rules here -- I was just trying 
> to be helpful.
> 
> PICList Administrators: Am I welcome to send messages via Nabble?
> 
> What if I (or someone) else is able to help someone out (who 
> objects to Nabble and "outsiders")? I thought the whole point 
> of the PICList and forum communities is for people to help 
> each other out. Does it really matter if I'm not currently a 
> PICList member or posting outside of the PICList? 
> 
> If posting to the PICList from Nabble is not acceptable, just 
> let me know and I will not do it, but instead I'll go through 
> the proper channels (PICList).
> 
> Best regards and thank you,
> 
> Ken Pergola
> --
> Sent from the MicroControllers - PIC forum at Nabble.com:
> http://www.nabble.com/-PIC-Internal-clock-t748357.html#a1993612
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