[EdLUG] Hello from a lurker and why is the list configured this way?

Edinburgh Linux Users Group edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk
Sat Mar 26 18:56:26 UTC 2016


On 2016-03-24 Thu 12:54 PM |, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> 
> The history behind some of this was that the mailing list was originally
> hosted on the University's majordomo service which was then migrated to
> Sympa with the archive exported to HTML format which munged peoples
> email addresses while still keeping their name where available. If not I
> think it retained the first portion of the mail address and munged the
> 2nd portion i.e. the part after the @ but the specifics are now lost in
> the mists of time. Most recently, partly because it transpired that the
> archive wasn't visible to anyone outside the University and because
> EdLUG were migrating from an ancient University webserver to lug.org.uk
> hosting the mailing list was moved to it's present Mailman on lug.org.uk
> 

The Universiy's Scottish Dance Society's mailing list has over 900
people on it - mostly young attractive dancing girls.

*No* silly address hiding is used.

http://www.NewScotland.Org.UK/

Cheers!
-- 
Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7



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