Keith....my concern is a computer-bot program that will be data mining all of our email addresses and other information. Is there anyway you could put a human required firewall question up front so a rogue program would be stopped before entering? Much like tinypic.com does before you download a photo. They give you a script to type into a box to make sure you're not a machine that is data mining. If you can't protect our email addresses from this, I would ask that you remove my information that has my email addresses attached. What is so hard about requiring a simple sign up (a bot program could not sign up) before accessing information? I feel already that GOOGLE and other search engines that are already tied to YouTube and Facebook data mine too much information. I get these POP UPs, web ads and rogue emails constantly. Anyway to protect our email addresses Keith? Thanks Bob
From: kdiehl@xmission.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:31:32 -0600 Subject: M_Boats: Vote Count - Searchable Archives
I've got 17.5 votes for open archives and 1.5 votes against.
Anyone else want to weigh in before I decide to opent the archives and enable the search engine?
Keith Diehl Cottonwood Heights, UT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Diehl" <kdiehl@xmission.com> To: "Montgomery Boats List" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:52 PM Subject: M_Boats: Searchable Archives
In the past, some members were very concerned that their postings were readable by non-members, so I closed the archives to public viewing and cancelled our searchable archives. I never quite understood the concern, since anyone can join the mailing and then read everything old and new, but that was what was wanted.
The question of searchable archives has come up again, so I'll ask the membership:
Would you like to have searchable archives if it means the archives are readable by anyone on the internet, including search engines?
As an example of what we could have, here is the main Lurker search engine page for Xmission hosted public lists;
http://mailman.xmission.com/lurker/splash/index.en.html
Keith Diehl Cottonwood Heights, UT