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

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Feb 9 21:01:09 EST 2005


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.

My bad, I misread the original post.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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