[MLB-WIRELESS] Ack, dag nabbit! the mailing list is ruined my emailaddress.

Steven Haigh netwiz at optushome.com.au
Mon May 27 21:27:06 EST 2002


This has been discussed to death in the past.

It was decided that because there are many broken email clients that do
cannot send a reply to the original sender, that the list should not
re-write the sender address.

IPv6 or web board anyone? ;)

Signed,
Steven Haigh
President - Melbourne Wireless
www.wireless.org.au


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Tiltman" <andrew at mediadome.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Ack, dag nabbit! the mailing list is ruined my
emailaddress.


> People,
>
> While were on the subject, how about changing the majordomo settings so
that
> it replaces every emails reply to: with melbwireless at wireless.org.au ???
> (takes 5 seconds to do)
>
> The whole idea of the list is to function as a forum but with the currect
> configuration responses are being strewn all over the place, eg.
> I was the originator of this topic yet I was not aware of anyone working
to
> correct the problem, because obviously whoever replied regarding it sent
the
> email soley to another member instead of the list.
>
> Regards,
> -Andrew
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rowan Wainwright-Smith" <Rowan at teleaudit.com>
> To: <Tyson.Clugg at csiro.au>; "melb wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Ack, dag nabbit! the mailing list is ruined my
> emailaddress.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Tyson.Clugg at csiro.au wrote:
> >
> > > Rowan,
> > >
> > > This matter has already been assigned to our resident site coder, Drew
> > > Ulrich.  Contact him using the following e-mail address:
> > >         drew at wireless.org.au
> > >
> >
> > cool, then you already have it under control.... no problems.... I don't
> need to
> > stick my nose in too far then!
> >
> > >
> > > With respect to privacy issues, there are various legal issues which
> need to
> > > be addressed - the priority of such action is questionable, as the
whole
> > > organisation needs to be incorporated into a legal entity as a matter
of
> > > urgency.  I'm not saying that privacy is low priority, it is just not
> the
> > > *top* priority at the moment.
> > >
> >
> > The fact that you already have some one working on it says otherwise,
but
> I know
> > what you mean. As a general suggestion on the matter, it would probably
be
> a
> > good idea to have one of the working groups (??WGStructure??) review
> existing
> > privacy policy statements used by other similar organizations etc and
> modify one
> > to suit, when the time comes???
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tyson.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Rowan Wainwright-Smith [mailto:Rowan at teleaudit.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 9:52 AM
> > > > To: MelbourneWireless List Member
> > > > Subject: Re: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Ack, dag nabbit! the mailing list is
> > > > ruined my emailaddress.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I, too, have noticed an increase in spam, but nothing too
hideous....
> > > >
> > > > However, as a programmer, i have the code here, that will fix
> > > > the archive and
> > > > make all the e-mail addresses into _absolutely_ anything at
> > > > all..... if the
> > > > powers that be within the organization would like to use this
> > > > product, then they
> > > > can feel free to contact me. Of course, some small mods may
> > > > be required to the
> > > > code depending on the platform the archive is located on, and
> > > > to automate the
> > > > process, but nothing major!
> > > >
> > > > I think, that as an organisation, wireless.org.au, has an
> > > > obligation to protect
> > > > its members (and members of its mailing lists) from this type
> > > > of thing. This is
> > > > covered under privacy legislation, and the group should look
> > > > at this VERY
> > > > carefully, or find ourselves left _WIDE_ open legally with
> > > > respect to privacy
> > > > issues.
> > > >
> > > > Steven, Tyson, et al, I suggest that you look into this as a
> > > > matter of the utmost
> > > > urgency, before somebody gets really nasty about it.
> > > >
> > > > It should also be noted, that most mailer-daemons (windoze
> > > > based ones) have the
> > > > ability to protect the identities (e-mail addresses) of its
> > > > subscribers, its just
> > > > a question of finding the setting for it.
> > > >
> > > > Rowan
> > > >
> > > > dwayne wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > hey Andrew I thought I'd send *this* bit to the list but
> > > > feel free to
> > > > > continue this offlist if you like.
> > > > > Just occurred to me that pobox.com might be useful to others.
> > > > >
> > > > > Andrew Tiltman wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Andrew Tiltman wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Generally I would bitch and moan about wanting
> > > > compensation (how the
> > > > > > > > could you compensate such a loss? ideas anyone? ;))
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Offer your services, and that of your hammer, should
> > > > anyone find out
> > > > > > > where the spammers live?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm afraid that its impossible to catch the spammers, or
> > > > have any impact on
> > > > > > what they do... if it was possible they wouldnt exist ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > This, of course, is blindingly obvious, yes  :)
> > > > >
> > > > > > Theres nothing that can be done other than getting a new
> > > > email address and
> > > > > > reprinting boxes of business cards, not to mention the
> > > > ones people already
> > > > > > have
> > > > >
> > > > > Ow ow ow.
> > > > >
> > > > > pobox.com catches nearly all spam and flags 98% of the spam I get
as
> > > > > [may be spam - pobox] in the subject line. I hardly ever
> > > > get something
> > > > > not obviously spam before I click on it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Very cheap, been dwayne at pobox.com since 1994 or 1995. Since they
> > > > > started, basically.  And I get 500+ emails per day, and have been
> > > > > getting that volume since I got online in 91.
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh, and my email address has been on my webpages since
> > > > 1993, and at one
> > > > > stage I had 5% of the net per month looking at my pages.
> > > > Oh, and I used
> > > > > to post to usenet under that address as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, it's been tested, I guess  :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Dwayne
> > > > >
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