Re: Not happy...
Re: Not happy...
- Subject: Re: Not happy...
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:14:09 +0000
on 2/2/05 7:22 am, Adrian Milliner wrote:
> What I don't understand is why people don't get a different email
> address for interaction on public forums like these? I use a gmail
> address for apple lists and nothing else.
>
> As a result of working this way, my real email address gets almost no
> spam at all.
>
> ( and Gmail also has a way better search of the list than the list
> archive site does and does a good job of filtering spam - I have some
> invites left if anyone is interested )
Great, I'll have to add "re-awakening long dead threads" to the list of
crimes that top-posters are associated with.
There are a few holes in your argument.
You don't use gmail and nothing else as you were using
<email@hidden> in October.
My complaint wasn't primarily about spamming, it was about other people
using *our* messages to bolster the content of *their* site and sell their
products without getting permission from Apple.
If you ran a mailing list you'd understand that using different email
addresses for posting to lists isn't a particularly good solution because,
judging by the server logs, the majority of list members who do this seem to
require at least two attempts to get their messages to the list :-(
Luckily the administrators of this list decided to kick mail-archive.com's
arse instead of recommending that we all let Google snoop our mail.
On the subject of maintaining a searchable archive (and to give this message
some content that might be useful to the list), we recently started using a
product called MailBoxer which works with the Zope/Plone python-based CMS.
It offers full mailing list admin and archiving services, but we are using
the archive function only.
If you run your own mail server you can pipe messages to a python script
which will upload the message content to your archive. If you don't, you can
use an AppleScript to automate the export of messages from your mail client
to create a fully searchable archive of all you messages that's accessible
via any web browser.
Oh, nearly forgot to mention that MailBoxer and Plone are free and can be
installed on Panther in a matter of minutes.
--
Martin Orpen
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