Hi,
I did look at this. I too hadn't heard of GMANE. As Andy says, USENET and
mailing lists are very different things.
I would be opposed to anything that. exposed my email address to every spambot
on USENET. More so if it was two-way and opened a back door for said spambots
and unknown people to bypass the list membership requirement to post to the
list by posting to USENET.
All the best,Paul.
------ Original message------From: Andy Random Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:16To:
Hampshire LUG Discussion List;Subject:Re: [Hampshire] GMANE integration with
HantsLUG
Hi Dom,Sorry for the late reply I've been away for 3 weeks.On Wed, 10 Feb 2016,
Dom Rodriguez wrote:> I currently use GMANE (https://gmane.org) for my
newsgroups at the> moment, and found that HantsLUG (or any UK LUG mailing list
for that matter, AFAIK)> wasn't on the server.I'd not heard of GMANE until this
post, but as far as I know no, it's not on that server. I'd also point out that
this is a mailing list not a newsgroup and that they are two quite different
things, but that might just be the pedant in me talking...> If HantsLUG (or any
other UK LUG mailing list) was to be added to GMANE,> what would you guys think
about it?Where and how the list is archived has been a very hot topic in the
past, and some people have very strong feeling on the subject.However the list
is a very different place now than it was 5 or 10 years ago and since no one
has leaped in and screamed "NO!" or made any kind of comment at all then I'm
guessing most of the people with strong feelings on the subject are no longer
paying much attention to the list.The biggest concern would be publicising
people's email addresses to a wider forum, assuming GMANE anonymises email
addresses and that the archiving started from now, with some announcement to
the list, rather than importing the whole archive I doubt anyone would care
either way.If GMANE doesn't hide user email addresses or you are proposing a
whole scale import of the archives, that is probably not very acceptable.As for
other LUG lists, each LUG is a separate entity, you would have to ask each one
individually for their opinion. Andy-- Andrew Ransom [Hants LUG
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