George, I'm still not seeing the senders name or e-mail address on this message. Cheers. Alex ----- Original Message ----- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:40 AM Subject: [access-uk] Problem with list > OK. I hold my hands up here. My fault. Let me > try and explain. > > The change had actually been made with good > intentions, and in all of your interests. The > idea of not displaying the Sender's address was to > try and prevent e-mail address harvesting programs > (known collectively as "Robots") from collecting > all of your addresses, for the purpose of adding > them to spamming lists. > > The alternative is to have to approve each > application for membership in an effort to ensure > such robots don't join for a short period, and > then leave after collecting the data they want. > However, this would just make the joining process > more tedious, and cause the moderators too much > extra work. > > However, clearly you all don't like this change, > so it's back as it was. > > George Bell. > -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- > -- Type: application/ms-tnef > -- File: winmail.dat > > > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** vacation ## d > ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. > ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq