[Buddha-l] Make the subscription list visible to subscribers?

JKirkpatrick jkirk at spro.net
Mon Feb 1 10:20:32 MST 2010


 


What, aside from idle curiosity about who lurks on the list or
some malicious pfishing expedition, needs to have access to the
member list with email addresses? One can get the personal email
address of anyone who posts to the list just by looking at the
"from:" item in their message.

Let lurkers lurk in the anonymity they crave.

Dan 
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Not all lurkers crave invisibility. The point of making the list
available, minus emails because of spam hazards, would be to see
if someone who used to be on the list is still on but not posting
of late, in the hope of contacting him or her.  Such contacts are
often very helpful. If one could get that email from the
moderator(s), that would eliminate the need for visible email
addresses while still facilitating research. If one sends and
email and elicits no reply, then one can assume that so and so
won't agree to being contacted, and so be it.

JK  



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