Hi,
I did look at this. I too hadn't heard of GMANE. As Andy says, USENET and mailing lists are very different things.
I would be opposed to anything that. exposed my email address to every spambot on USENET. More so if it was two-way and opened a back door for said spambots and unknown people to bypass the list membership requirement to post to the list by posting to USENET.
All the best,Paul.
------ Original message------From: Andy Random Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:16To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List;Subject:Re: [Hampshire] GMANE integration with HantsLUG
Hi Dom,Sorry for the late reply I've been away for 3 weeks.On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Dom Rodriguez wrote:> I currently use GMANE (https://gmane.org) for my newsgroups at the> moment, and found that HantsLUG (or any UK LUG mailing list for that matter, AFAIK)> wasn't on the server.I'd not heard of GMANE until this post, but as far as I know no, it's not on that server. I'd also point out that this is a mailing list not a newsgroup and that they are two quite different things, but that might just be the pedant in me talking...> If HantsLUG (or any other UK LUG mailing list) was to be added to GMANE,> what would you guys think about it?Where and how the list is archived has been a very hot topic in the past, and some people have very strong feeling on the subject.However the list is a very different place now than it was 5 or 10 years ago and since no one has leaped in and screamed "NO!" or made any kind of comment at all then I'm guessing most of the people with strong feelings on the subject are no longer paying much attention to the list.The biggest concern would be publicising people's email addresses to a wider forum, assuming GMANE anonymises email addresses and that the archiving started from now, with some announcement to the list, rather than importing the whole archive I doubt anyone would care either way.If GMANE doesn't hide user email addresses or you are proposing a whole scale import of the archives, that is probably not very acceptable.As for other LUG lists, each LUG is a separate entity, you would have to ask each one individually for their opinion. Andy-- Andrew Ransom [Hants LUG List Admin]-- Please post to: Hampshire@??? Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshireLUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk--------------------------------------------------------------
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