[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

[Dale Newfield]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> > If you've got a database mapping arbitrary number/name/string to an email
> > address, then why not just have a web form that sends mail to that address
> > knowing only the arbitrary value (and never divulge the email address)?
>
> Basically, what I'm proposing. And I'm more and more convinced it's the
> right way to do this, for all that web forms are less personal than sending
> email directly. I think admins have to make themselves accessible. I don't
> think they have to make themselves accessible on the user's terms... Another
> of those tradeoffs.

I was meaning the archives.  We have a database describing lists, so we
can handle that.

-Dale