mailing list privacy, etc.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi.


We're talking about sharing the name, not the email address. Sharing 
email addresses in these lists is a huge no no, but I can't see what's 
wrong with the name valiant8086 showing up in the emails and on any 
internet archives of it.


Cheers:
Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy Associates "we make (VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind comunity" http://valiantGalaxy.com

On 4/14/2022 5:05 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I agree too. If we get spam, which I mean that happens regardless, from
> online account leaks of your email address, to going on dubious sites and
> submitting your email because you got a text saying you won $500, spam is
> gonna happen. If your mail provider, or mail server, or email client, can't
> deal with spam, usually by you marking an email from a sender as spam and
> the program automatically marking further messages from that sender as spam
> too, then that's a problem with your setup, not the list. Of course, I
> think this list is ran by RedHat, so who knows what wheels have to spin in
> the big corporation, or corpse as I like to call them, to get software on
> the mail server updated and this change made.
> Devin Prater
> r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:48 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm in violent agreement with Didier's feelings about confusion between
>> posters in this mailing list.  Reading completely anonymous postings and
>> trying to figure out whether and how they relate to previous postings is a
>> real drag.  That said, I'm open to various ways it could be resolved.
>>
>> Regarding posters' desire to be anonymous, I'll point out (again :-) that
>> it would be fine for posters to use some sort of nickname, pseudonym, etc.
>> It only has to be unusual enough to let the reader tell various posters
>> apart.  So, for example, "Fred" isn't very useful, but "Fred123" or even
>> "abc123" would work just fine...
>>
>> - Rich Morin
>>
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