Re: list migration

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Dave Denholm wrote:

>You can send 'who' requests to majordomo. I send
>
>who info-gnuplot
>who info-gnuplot-digest
>who info-gnuplot-beta
>who info-gnuplot-beta-digest
>who bug-gnuplot
>
>to majordomo from time to time to keep my local list refreshed (for failure matching)
>

I just verified that this can be done.  I do not like this!!!  Not
one bit.  With the amount of spam that was being routed through
Dartmouth, it is clear that this facility is/was a spammer target.
It is not a far stretch of the imagination that an automated
program would target and query such a list to collect email
addresses.  Please, people's addresses cannot be placed on
a list that is publicly available.  And the sooner the Majordomo
list goes down, the better, as far as I'm concerned.  I've just
been discussing the sudden occurrence of spam with multi-
recipients of certain IEEE alias addressed emails, and I'm not
the only who would find something like the Majordomo "who"
disconcerting.  Please see if the SF email list can be made
private, accessible only to those four of you knowing the password.
Once a person's address gets out and starts floating about the
spammer lists, I suspect the game is over.

Thanks,

Dan