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

[Geoffrey]

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

>>Old, very old, news.  Don't like it move on.  There is NO
>>way to have public archives that can not be harvested. Again,
>>there is NO way to have public archives that that can not be
>>harvested.
> 
> 
> Poppycock. There are plenty of mailing list archives out there
> that make /some/ effort to prevent harvesting of the email addresses.
> Most of them do something as simple as changing email addresses
> found to (greg "at" turnstep.com) or something similar.

And you think the spam harvesters haven't figured that out?

> Even
> if ALE's current system does not support it (and if it does not,
> perhaps it is time to upgrade), you could certainly hack the source,
> or even write a simple perl script that periodically cleanses the
> archives, independent of the mailing list software.

If someone want's to put the code together, I'm sure Chris would 
consider using it.  But don't waste your time writing code that's going 
to translate foo at bar.com to foo "at" bar dot com....

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey