<div dir="ltr">One of those such unsolicited commercial offers was (perhaps accidentally) posted to the list publicly within the last few days. It wasn't even really on topic. <div><br></div><div>--Damian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:26 AM, James Hodgkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yaleman@ricetek.net" target="_blank">yaleman@ricetek.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><div>That's also how I read it - "if you want to take part in this community, please have the common decency not to act like a spammer"<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div>On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, at 11:24, Robert Hudson wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I took it from the wording of David's email that known subscribers were pestering other subscribers with sales offers after posts were made on relevant topics.<br></div>
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<div>Hard to take action against individuals concerned if they're not known to the list admins. :)<br></div>
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<div><div>On 11 December 2015 at 12:18, Andrew McN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@mcnaughty.com" target="_blank">andrew@mcnaughty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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The mailing list archives are publicly available. e.g. your message is<br></div>
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with limited, and presumably ineffective obfuscation of email addresses.<br></div>
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Perhaps the web archives should be restricted to logged in users?<br></div>
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