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Hey! What are my email address/phone number/social security number/dental records doing on your web site???

So, you've discovered the fact that the mailing lists are archived, eh? That's a common internet practice. Where have you been?

If you sent email to a mailing list and put your email address in clear text, it will show up in the archives that way. Ditto for your phone number, social security number, and dental records.

In fact, not only will this information show up on this web site, it will be archived on other sites around the web, too. So, there's little you can do once you've sent this information out over the vast tubes of the internets.

We do not normally edit the content of the archives except to remove viruses. So, if you do not want something read by vast numbers of people do not hit the send key.

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Unsubscribing

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Unsubscribing problems

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What is a digest?

For a mailing list that is very high volume (20-30 notes a day), a digest version of that list can be very convenient. When you are on the digest version, you will get a single mail note once a day (or once every 30 messages--which ever comes first) that contains all of the traffic to that mailing list that day.

Digests are less useful on low volume lists (such as most of the announcement lists, which may have one note sent to them per month).

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I can't post because your spam software won't let me, and I want to tell you how unhappy I am

We use a combination of a custom filter, spamassassin and ClamAV (for virus scanning) to control the flow of idiot junk email to our mailing lists. As of this writing, the vast majority of email to this site is spam. Isn't that a sad state of affairs?

While our filters may cause an occasional problem with well-meaning email, in general there are few cases of the filters returning a "false positive" (or is it actually a "false negative"?).