Overall, it seems like the best way to keep all the good things about the
list going would be to eliminate email addresses completely from what
gets cross-posted to the usenet.

Tom Hula
Victor S. Barnes Company

Michael L Gueterman wrote:
|| John wrote:
||
|| <snip>
|| The conclusion?
|| That either the connection sending posts TO the newsgroup must be
|| cut, or email addresses of those who post to the listserve must be
|| stripped, replaced with "address not available", or replaced a
|| generic address like "[log in to unmask]" when posts are fed to
|| the newsgroup.  Comments anyone?
|| <snip>
||
||   As current "keeper of the gateway flame" :), let me add a couple of
|| things:
||
|| .  The gateway is pretty much non-discriminatory about what comes
||   and goes. For a while a year or so ago we did eliminate some of
|| the messages that were
||   cross-posted to various newsgroups from being forwarded to
||   HP3000-L, but that is no longer in place due to the next item.
||
|| .  UTC (i.e. Jeff) has already limited what HP3000-L will accept
||   based upon whether or not you are subscribed directly to that
|| list.  Therefore even if
||   you post directly to the newsgroup, you must be a HP3000-L
||   subscriber to have your message sent to out to the list members (I
||   also believe Jeff manually allows some messages through on
||   occasion from non-subscribers, but being a subscriber would make
|| that process a whole lot easier :).
||
|| .  On multiple occasions, people have brought up the idea that the
||   gateway be shutdown to reduce the amount of spam people receive.
||   Although that may help, it will by no means stop it.  As an
||   example, I have a msn.com account that I use when I travel.  I
||   have "never" sent an email through that account anywhere, yet I
|| get dozens of spam emails a day sent to it.
||
||   So, I'm willing to entertain any ideas that the list members (both
|| on the newsgroup and HP3000-L) can come to some consensus on:
|| .  Shut it down (which will cut off many good contributors/lurkers).
|| .  Modify the email addresses from postings originally made on
||    HP3000-L (which will only slow the spammers down as I'm sure that
||    any good email address harvesting software already parses the
|| addresses). .  Leave it alone.
|| .  Something else entirely.  ;)
||
|| Please keep any discussions on the list as I want whatever comes
|| about
|| to be agreeable to the majority here.
||
|| Regards,
|| Michael L Gueterman
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