-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:57:54 pm L. Rahyen wrote: > On Thursday March 20 2008 04:34:09 Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 07:21:42 pm jnewman wrote: > > > Zachary Goldberg wrote: > > > > Are these being caused by people changing the subject mid-thread on > > > > the forum? Can we disable that ability to prevent thread jumps? > > > > > > No, they are being caused by posts from outside the forum (ala the > > > list). Not sure what can be done about that, other than to ask people > > > to try to keep that to a minimum. > > > > While we're at it, for the benefit of list users, could we get the forum > > to put a real address in the From: instead of a nonfunctional > > boilerplate? > > No, e-mail address shouldn't be revealed to the public (and spam robots). > And if user wants his/her contacts published in the forum he/she can > register there and fill in corresponding fields and then continue to write > to mailing list (instead of forum). If user don't want his/her e-mail to be > revealed in the forum (or somewhere else) then this shouldn't happened. > Of course it is possible to modify e-mail somehow to prevent spam robots > from collecting the address so easily but protected e-mail and true e-mail > are different things (as I said above, true e-mail address never should be > revealed to the public). Address munging is considered harmful. It's the postmaster's responsibility not to accept spam in the first place. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4gXjUCxPKZafKh0RAqsSAJ9QK3CDO+hS7PogtFJeyRK3r6qE+wCgyeee 3aHyvQ5QeHO8ZrhIb7WiSIU= =Gr93 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
