On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:28:46PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:03 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to > > > stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives. > > > > The day Debian maims its archives in such a way will be a sad day, indeed > > ... > > Why?
I regularly find people's contact information via list archives; several times, I've had to spend over an hour digging to find someone, because every archive I could find the person on messed with the contact information. I don't consider that an acceptable trade. > Do you believe such an attitude is helpful when, for example, we ask > people to post on [EMAIL PROTECTED] with their D-I test results? I would > say that a number of the people who do post their results are not aware > of what they are getting themselves into. I post regularly on Debian lists, and have done so for several years on multiple still-active email addresses, and with a default, completely untuned SpamAssassin installation and no Bayes, I see only a few junk mails a day. Sorry, but I'm just not particularly sympathetic to people who want to inconvenience others and reduce the utility of Debian's list archives for this purpose. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
