[geeklog-users] Making this list less anonymous

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

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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