[TriLUG] Concerns about public mail archives (was: The Samba Question you posted about printing)

[Nathan Conrad]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:29:45PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Your concern is well noted.  I will write a script to expunge our email
> addresses from the archives.  By default mailman removes them from the
> headers before archiving, but alas, folks often include them in their
> responses to folks.
> 
> I promise to have this done before tomorrow.

How about just putting a space after each at sign? Or, are the
email-address harvesters smarter than that? This method has the
advantage that no information is lost during the removal of email
addresses from the archive. Or maybe a 'members only' archive with
addresses?

-Nathan

> 
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Long" <petelong at petelong.com>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:13 PM
> Subject: [TriLUG] Concerns about public mail archives (was: The Samba
> Question you posted about printing)
> 
> 
> > I am a little concerned by the fact that the trilug mailing list archives
> > are publicly searchable. What are the chances of a web-spider type thing
> > harvesting our email addresses from these archives?
> >
> > I have on two occasions received email from people not on the list
> > regarding questions I had posted on the list. I have no problem with
> > genuine email queries like that, but I dread the day that I start getting
> > spam at this address.
> >
> > > You'll probably have to be more specific in your request or reference
> > > to the mailing list.
> > >
> > > BTW: you can search the mailing list archives at:
> > > http://www.trilug.org/htdig/search.html
> > >
> > > Good Luck.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Long
> > mailto:petelong at petelong.com
> >
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