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

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 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?

As I noted, if we quick archiving addresses, everyone would have to 
change their email address.

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Until later, Geoffrey