So far I think I can
say with reasonable confidence that no-one has harvested my email address from
this list to use in spam or for other nefarious purposes.
I think that may be
a mixture of JISCMail security and also the fact the I sent "SET * CONCEAL" to
the list the moment I joined it. "Conceal" conceals your email address
from all except logged in users, if I interpret the command
correctly.
30 of us so far have
set our status to "CONCEAL", but I think it would be worth everyone's while to
consider doing so. I have also set the default status for new users to
reflect this setting.
I was prompted to do
this by a search which could reveal information about any list member to the
outside world. It revealed the following:
BEGINS
ENDS
My search was http://tinyurl.com/v53gh and following
it showed me the item above. And yes, I am sad enough to search for my own
name, but it could have been a search on any of us.
We have a dilemma,
now, of course. As moderators we could switch at a stroke every user to
CONCEAL. Our challenge is that users control their own destiny, and we
"ought not to". So, since new users are safeguarded, we will leave it at
present to individuals to alter those settings. However a sudden and
substantial groundswell will lead to the switch being flipped centrally to save
everyone from faffing about. I don't mean "Make representations on the
list." PLEASE DON'T. We can check who has flipped the switch in a
management panel. If enough users do that in the next hour or two I think
we can say it is valid for us to take that action centrally.
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