At 10:32 AM -0400 5/22/06, Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E] wrote:
I'm also worried about spam; that's why electronic mail addresses have been purged from the time zone distribution (and most especially from the source data files such as "northamerica" which end up on millions of computers worldwide).
Thank you for taking this action.
The gmane site's archive of stuff that's gone out on the time zone mailing list extends back to July 2004; has tz-linked spam been seen since then?
Not that I know of. I don't think that the gmane mailing list archive currently poses a significant security threat.
And...if the gmane mailing list archive is a bad thing, is the elsie ftpable mailing list archive also a bad thing (or is security through difficulty of use sufficient)?
--ado
I think that there are two issues. One is security (spam, etc.) and the other is exposure. I understand that the tz list is public, but this new archive exposes the tz list content to anyone with a web browser. For example, all tz list content can now be searched for on Google: <http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=Kirov+timezone+according+to+the+tz+da...> This is a big change. I think that this very dramatic increase in exposure will eventually have a negative affect on the list. I have seen this happen to other lists. Right now the tz list is very focused and low volume. I like that. Chuck