[Amps] Spam from Members of this List ...

[Administrator]

Tony writes: 

> Contesting Dot Com publishes ALL of our email addresses IN 
> THE CLEAR on the archive.  The spammers collect these email 
> addresses from the archive without having to sign in or do 
> ANYTHING except grab them and use them. Don't believe me?  

There are two sets of archives for Amps and *all* of the other 
lists at contesting.com.  One is the "standard" downloadable 
archives: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/amps/ the other 
set of archives are the "searchable" archives: 
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Amps/ 

The "normal" archive function of the list software does obscure 
e-mail addresses and has done so since the feature became available 
in early 2003.  However, Tony's comments have caused me to do some 
further research.  The "searchable" archives for *ALL* of the 
contesting.com lists do provide unobscured e-mail addresses. 

I will be contacting the software maintainers to see if there is 
an option to obscure e-mail addresses in the searchable archives. 
Those archives are a separate application and not under the control 
of the individual list administrators. 

73, 

   ... Administrator 
       amps at contesting.com