Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:59:53 -0500, Ryan Shoemaker - JavaSoft East <Ryan.Shoemaker_at_Sun.COM> wrote:
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>> My concern is that this would allow people to scrape e-mail addresses out of postings in the
>> archive and spam subscribers directly. I didn't want to make this change without asking for
>> feedback from people on the list. There are
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> I was evaluating JAXB to determine whether it was something I would like to incorporate into our
> design. There were a couple issues I was having, and was hoping someone on the list would have
> answered them already. When I realized I couldn't even search the list (for troubleshooting)
> without joining the list, I almost decided to scrap JAXB. Even when signing up, I wasn't sure
> whether to do DIGEST or not, because I had no idea of the amount of traffic the list received.
> However, I DID sign up.
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Thanks for the data point - this is exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
> I definitely agree with closed posting. I can understand the email issue, but realistically,
> what spammer couldn't join the list?
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This definitely could happen, but as the list owner, I can cancel their subscription
immediately. I see about 5 or 10 attempted spam messages sent to the list per day,
and it is only going to get worse, so keeping the closed postings is definitely the
way to go.
Thanks again,
--Ryan
> Malachi
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