# RE: [stack] "concatenative" privacy/security

## Billy Tanksley — 2001-04-11 18:34:50

    From: Manfred von Thun [mailto:phimvt@...]

     >My recollection is that when the concatenative group was

    >handled by egroups.com, one had to join to read the emails.

    >When I was first invited, I joined and put a link on the

    >Joy page advising how to join the group - and of course

    >I had to give the name of the group.

     I originally set things up that way.  I changed it after I realised the

    subject was reasonably popular.

     >In the meantime the handling of the group was transferred to yahoo.

    >Recently I had a private email (from a non-member, at that time)

    >suggesting that I update the link to

    >        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative

    >which gets into the group directly. All the old posts are there,

    >very nicely archived. But one can read them even if one is

    >not a member - as I found out when I visited that site from

    >another account which very definitely does not have any connection

    >with my normal account. So if I give the above link on the

    >Joy page, some marketeer can flood us with advertisements.

     No, not possible -- no email addresses show up in the archives, and you

    can't sign up without confirmation.  I'm a member of many egroups (now

    yahoogroups, I guess) and I've never had any problems of spam from them.

    The people responsible for managing the groups seem to be very good at

    dealing with spammers.

     >I nobody objects, I shall change the link on the Joy page

    >to the first, longer one above. It saves any new joiners those

    >extra two clicks. Please let me know if anyone objects.

     I highly approve.

     >   - Manfred

     -Billy