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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Kevin Brosius wrote:
>I haven't received that particular spam, but I think the problem is our
>public archives. I recently ran a net search (don't recall where, but
>one of the public engines, probably Netscape's) and got a bunch of hits
>for email lists I'm on. It looks like the search engines are indexing
>the mail archives available from our web page... (Which means all the
>email addresses are publicly retrievable.)
Not sure about other people, but I have very frequently found it helpful
to be able to search other user group's mailing lists. I see the downside
to the public archives, but think that they help more than they hurt.
Anyone else have any commentary on the subject?
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astonish the rest."
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