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I am content that the content of messages appears on that web site.  However
I am not content, now that I look at it, that my email address is available
on that site, albeit within a piece of software that is not easily trawled
by spam trawl agents

What perplexes me is the ability anyone has, member or not, I believe, to
extract ALL the email addresses from the list by didn't of a simple command.

I could illustrate this by doing that very thing, by importing the list into
my email program and by emailing one and all with a bright, cheery,
irrelevant and unwanted message.  I promise not to do this.

What this recruiter has done is to remind us of the inherent insecurities of
JISCMail.  We should consider, therefore, if JISCMail security should be
tightened.


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Sent: 24 September 2001 10:18
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Subject: Re: Attn Moderator: RE: Employment Opportunity - Data
Protection Mana


Hi,

This has come up before.  The list is open (ie. to people outside *.ac.uk
or "academic" domains).  Moreover, it is nothing about compromising of the
list as messages are put on the web here:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html
hence email addresses could be found anyway.

:-)
Charles


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Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44+(0)1382-344891. Fax: +44+(0)1382-201604.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/
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