2 Apr
2000
2 Apr
'00
1:10 p.m.
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for asking... I think you should have a single archive with
the Email addresses erased. If I find an old message, and want to
converse with that person, I can ask on the list for contact
information. If he (or she :) isn't on list anymore, they probably
aren't involved with good computers anymore...
Just my opinion... With that and 2 cents you can buy a '286 PC...
Clint
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
Hi all,
I know that Kevan posted that he's working on getting his archives back
up, but a question in the meantime...
I've been thinking of making a new archive of the list available at
retrobytes.org (starting with this month); any comments/concerns/advice?
Do I have to get anyone's explicit permission to do this?
Lastly, assuming I go through with this, would people prefer that I set
Mhonarc to obfuscate everyone's email addresses? The benefit, of course,
is that a spammer's address crawler couldn't pick up everyone's addresses
from the page like they do on newsgroups; the drawback is that people
wouldn't be able to directly contact the authors.
If the general feeling is that you'd rather the addresses be hidden,
perhaps I could create two archives...one private for classiccmp list
members to search the archives *with* addresses, and one public with the
obfuscated addresses.
As usual, any imput at all would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Aaron