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

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 20:25 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 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.


Errr.  make that email, not HTML, in the first sentance.  In the second
I do mean HTML and that refers to the web archive.  The current ALE
archive is using MHonArc v2.1 so, no their is no MHonArc option for
this.

-Jim P.