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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: The Gmane mail gateway.


On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2003, Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> wrote:

> IMHO signing up is appropriate. The policies of gmane.org are not the
> best; if I forgot to suppress my entries there then you'll be able to
> see why I say that. 

I don't understand.  

Suppose I sign up for a public email list and then archive all its
conversations on my machine.  Then, every week, I send a zipped up
version of all those emails to some other group of people, what is the
violation?

> Amongst other things gmane.org to me is a one-stop shop for address
> harvesters.

Do you know the policies he has put in place?  I don't know how having a
public email list will provide less spam.
-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.




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