A couple of people have inquired about (or asked that we stop) the subscriber list posting. I have not done that, but I thought I'd post a couple of comments on it. First of all, we did discuss this before starting the list, and while we recognize that it can result in people receiving spam, we also felt it had a lot of benefits. My personal position is that community discussions work better if people feel like they know who's around. We did realize this would be an issue, so we made sure to note it in the official rules, available on the web and mailed to each subscriber when they sign up. I've made a multi-year trial of spam coming to addresses harvested by web-crawlers, and it took over a year for the first spam to show up, and after that first batch, no more has shown up for over half a year so far. Obviously there's going to be at least some randomness in where they look for addresses. Also, this mailing list (and most mailing lists) has an archive on the web, so crawlers can find the addresses there anyway. However, I realized there was an easy thing I could change that wouldn't hurt the good parts a bit so far as I can see, and would make it at least a little less possible for spammers to pick up the list. I have changed the script so that it changes the "@" in each email address into " (at) ". The next time it appears, it should be in the new format. And the posting frequency was originally conceived to be once a month, and I will drop it to that soon -- although I must admit I'm fascinated to watch the fast growth of the subscriber list. I'd also like to recommend that people who want not to see spam consider installing something like spamassassin or TMDA, which seem to generally be thought to greatly cut down on the amount of spam you ever seen. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info