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

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Morning, hope you're having a good Easter weekend.

Pre lug-list the addresses were not munged and the majordomo tool would helpfully obfuscate the addresses on archival.

If there indeed a consensus that munging should not occur on-list, it should be considered / proposed and, as long as there are no overwhelming objections among us, I'm happy to update the list config.

Best wishes,
Ronald.

PS apologies for the top-post, my mobile client doesn't allow me to enter my response down below (!)
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From: Edinburgh Linux Users Group<mailto:edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk>
Sent: ‎26/‎03/‎2016 18:57
To: edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk<mailto:edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [EdLUG] Hello from a lurker and why is the list configured this way?

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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