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

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 9 20:30:32 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:54 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:14 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> > 
> >>Does the version of MHonArc that is running on ale.org support this?
> >>-- http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MHonArc/doc/faq/archives.html#exclude
> > 
> > 
> > I do believe that it does.  This would prevent principled webcrawlers/
> > and harvesters from collecting email addresses, but as we all know it's
> > not the principled people that we have to worry about.
> 
> I just looked at the interface and there is no such option.  I'm 
> assuming this would be on the subscribers management page.

Huh?  The URL was to: "Does MHonArc support the "no archive" flag in
messages?"  This is an HTML header.  In MHonArc the whole of HTML
headers is completely customizable.  

-Jim P.





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