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

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 20:41 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> The way I understand it is that if an email contains the header
> "X-no-archive: yes" then MHonArc will not archive the email thus
> preventing it from showing up on the web archive.
> 
> Of course, that would not prevent the email from showing in a message
> reply (e.g. Jim Popovitch's email will show in my reply). It seems to
> me that it would not be very difficult for the archiver to obfuscate,
> or completely remove, the email address from the From line in the web
> archive. I went to MHonArc's web page to see if it supports such a
> thing and the closest I was able to find was the support of the
> X-no-archive header. I must agree that it would be extremely
> beneficial if the archiver would rip email address from the From field
> before archiving but I also don't maintain the list.

Ok, this would work for the archive at ale.org, but what about other
archives of ALE?

-Jim P.