At 03:17 PM 26/01/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Checking the lists & newsgroups pages in www.firebirdsql.com I found
>that some of the lists available (almost in YahooGroups) are
>configured to not allow non-members to see the messages archieve.
>That's bad. I think only members can post to the list, but anyone
>should have rights to read the messages.
>
>My sugestion is that list admins configure their lists to allow
>public reading of the messages.

Nope, won't do it. It's an open invitation to spammers, sorry.

We could more prominently advertise the newsgroup mirror, though. Yes, I
know spammers harvest newsgroups as well but it's not quite as public as yahoo.

Helen