Re: Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:58:03 David Powers wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > I understand what you are thinking, but the fact > > remains your address is already public for having posted to the list. It > > seems you are getting bent out of shape because you aren't grasping this > > fact. Dan hasn't done anything wrong nor does he owe any apologies or > > concessions. > > I am not naive enough to think that my email address would have remained > secret if Dan hadn't published the list. Unfortunately, this is the only > newsgroup out of more than 20 that I regularly monitor or contribute to > that exposes individual addresses. I have tried posting in the past with > a munged address, but the post was rejected. I took the risk of using an > address that had been spam-free for years in the full knowledge of what > might happen. I did so, because this seemed a professional list, and the > address remained spam-free for about a year after my first post. It's > only within the last couple of months that spam has started coming in. > Whether it's this list that's been harvested, it's impossible to say. > > Of course, anyone with the appropriate coding skill can harvest > addresses from this list, as Dan has shown. I just don't think it's > sensible for a responsible member to hand the addresses of 100 members > on a plate to all and sundry. As I've said before, if Dan's response had > been, "Sorry, that wasn't meant to happen," that would have been the end > of it. > > And now this really must be the end of it. You really don't get it yet? You distributed it, I knew your email long before Dan did squat, didn't take any programming to acomplish that. And for skills? I'm poor at regexp (as in I SUCK) but hell, even I could do an harvest directly from postfix and you would come up time after time by your own hand, a few mails more with the mention of your email wouldn't do any difference, see; I got you one the first mail. > > __ > David Powers -- --- Børge Holen http://www.arivene.net