[ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 18:04 -0500, Jim Hopkins wrote:
> I'm assuming since anyone can view the ALE archives on the
> web, this means that e-mail addresses can be harvested by
> webcrawlers.  Not good.  In an attempt to help limit spam,
> I've made every effort with my primary account to keep any
> text form of the address off of the web, e.g., my web site
> displays the address as an image file.  Unfortunately, if
> I do a Google search of that address, it pops up in ALE
> archive hits.  And only there.  :(  Very disappointing!
> Try it with your own address.

Old, very old, news.  Don't like it move on.  There is NO 
way to have public archives that can not be harvested. Again, 
there is NO way to have public archives that that can not be
harvested.  Search the public ALE archives for many past
discussions on this very topic.

> I've sent messages to postmaster and admin at ale.org, but
> with only bouncing or no reply as the result.  Does anyone
> else feel that the list manager should take a look at the
> situation?

Isn't it overly presumptive of you to think that he hasn't? ;-)

-Jim P.