In the near future, you all should be getting an email from Freelists regarding
the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued recently by the
European Union. Anyone who has posted to the list recently should get it
first, followed by the rest of the addresses (some of which are doubtless not
current anyway.) Freelists will be following the new EU user privacy
regulation in order to avoid having to have two different sets of rules for
European and other users. These rules should, in theory, help to protect
against malfeasance by spammers and other bad actors.
What you will need to do: Apparently there will be an additional layer of
opt-in security for Wisbirdn (and all the other listservs hosted by Freelists.)
You must respond to the email from Freelists, consenting to the new, stricter
privacy policy, or you will be automatically unsubscribed from Wisbirdn. As I
understand it, there will be no followup emails, so don't blow off the first
(and only) one you get. I suspect this will affect the folks who rarely or
never post more than regular users. I'm sure more information will be
forthcoming from listowner Tom Sykes soon.
This should make using Wisbirdn more secure, and hopefully will cut down on
spam getting through to the list. I anticipate getting questions, and I'll do
my best to answer them, but I don't know much more than what I stated above at
this point. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Peter Fissel
Wisbirdn Admin/Monitor Guy
Madison WI
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