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

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Feb 10 08:52:59 EST 2005


William Bagwell wrote:
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:27 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a problem with not archiving posts to the list.  It will break
>>threading, for one.  It will defeat a major purpose of the list.
> 
> 
> On the web archive, which does not fully thread to begin with. Should have 
> *no* effect on threading (or personal archiving) in our mail readers.
> 
> I was just testing the possibility, would much prefer the public archives 
> simply strip out addresses. If someone needs to reply to a years old 
> message they should subscribe and ask on the list.

Fair enough.  So if someone can put together the code, I expect Chris 
would consider using it.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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