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<LI><em>From</em>: Katrina McClelan <<A HREF="mailto:kitkat#the486,bradley.edu">kitkat#the486,bradley.edu</A>></LI>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 coder#ibm,net wrote:
> Writing as list owner:
>
> This came up before, as well as the concern with spammers skimming the
> pages for email addresses. To this end all email addresses on the web
> pages in the message headers, bodies and signatures, will be munged.
> Currently I munge them simply: translating the at-sign ("@") to a hash
> ("#"). I can easily go further and translate periods to commas, or even
> the at-sign to the string " at ", or use random selection from a number of
> patterns.
>
> The form of the munging is (will be) clearly stated on the web pages.
>
That is probably sufficient. I personally just delete the spam. Then I
have no limit on HD space and don't have to download it all over a modem,
and I can quite easily see why people would dislike it. :)
> >Of course, we're all "elitist" according to some people on usenet anyway
> >:)
>
> Truth to tell; by simple definition this is an implicitly elitist society.
> I'm also damned proud of that fact.
>
I know, and expressly agree.
> There are problems with keeping the list compleatly closed, the most
> significant of which are that without more active recruitment of new
> members (I think three of us are reponsible for almost the entire current
> membership (getting close to 100)) and the resulting import of new topics
> the list will eventually die either thru endless topical incest (we all
> know what each other is doing, and have hashed over the same weary old
> coals too many times to be interested) or simple lack of relevance.
>
Ok, I'll stand corrected. "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things to wonderful for me to know" (Job 42:3) :)
-Katrina
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00045" HREF="msg00045.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: [Fwd: MUD-Dev]</A></strong>,
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#the486,bradley.edu">kitkat#the486,bradley.edu</a>, Tue 07 Apr 1998, 08:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00048" HREF="msg00048.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Meta: who dat guy, wot dat web?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00060" HREF="msg00060.html">META: The web presence and wot it ain't gonna be</A></strong>,
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