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OK .. this is a hot button of mine, and I need to speak up about this.
Please accept this as a constructive criticism, and not an angry flame.
:)
I read the guidelines and I see nothing that explains why email addresses
are not obfuscated or removed from posts. This is standard practice on
most modern maillists and is the responsible thing to do. As far as I
know, everyone has to be registered in some way to be able to post to the
OASIS lists, therefore, the person's name should be enough of an
attribution. I realize that even on lists that do remove/munge email
addresses, it does happen that an address will make it through in plain
text, this is understandable. But having an archive of lists that are
known to be chock full of addresses in plain text just encourages them to
be harvested.
I maintain a separate address for use on lists, and can filter that
address or dump it altogether if the spam level gets too high. This is the
best way I've found to deal with this inevitable problem, but it would be
really nice if OASIS could make an attempt at protecting its members'
addresses from being harvested. These are the only lists that I'm on that
this is an issue.
I'd be glad to work with the webmaster to help resolve this issue.
Thanks .. now back to your regularly scheduled programming. :)
...scott
> Not at this time. Our list falls under the OASIS Mail List Guidelines
> http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php. There are many good
> reasons why our lists need to be open and why posts need to be
> attributable.
>
> If anyone has advice for minimizing spam and still retaining public
> access to our information, please send your thoughts to
> webmaster@oasis-open.org.
>
> Keep in mind, by posting your email on the Focus Area pages, you expose
> yourself to risk. Death, taxes, and spam...
>
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