[geeklog-users] Making this list less anonymous

[Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio]

I would MUCH prefer to turn anonymous_list off and ensure that 
obscure_addresses is enabled.

Chipper


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 geeklog-users-admin at lists.geeklog.net wrote:


>This is a question to the users of this list regarding the cloaking of

>their email addresses when posting to the list.

>

>When this list was originally started, the email addresses of all posters

>were exposed both in the list and in the list archives. After someone

>complained about this (and rightly so), we switched to what we currently

>have: When you post to the list, your name and email adddress is replaced

>with geeklog-users-admin[at]lists.geeklog.net.

>

>This, however, makes the list a bit too anonymous for my tastes. As some

>people don't add their names to the message text, it's often hard to even

>know who you're talking too.

>

>As it seems, the mailing list software we're using offers another option.

>It would make the name and email address fully visible again on all posts

>to the list but not in the archives. Since all our mailing lists require

>subscribing, chances that someone subscribes to them only to get the

>email addresses are pretty low, IMHO. In the archives, such a post would

>look like this one:

>

><http://lists.geeklog.net/pipermail/geeklog-devtalk/2003-September/

>000298.html>

>

>As you can see, it shows my name, but not my email address.

>

>Any objections against making that switch?

>

>bye, Dirk

>

>

>


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