On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:38:51PM -0500, Richard Troth wrote: > > FYI, for those who care about such things, > > this list is being tracked by http://www.mail-archive.com/. > > Sorry for the duplicate info if this was mentioned before. > > > > Why should you care? > > Such tracking is easy fodder for e-mail address harvesters. BAD > > Tracking services make web search of the list easy. GOOD > > Personally, I have other ways of checking the archives, > > so I prefer to NOT have the list tracked nor peered to NetNews. > > But I must confess that I have used such services. > > mail-archives obfuscate emails the Right-Way: you need to actually post > a form to get an email. To harvest many emails you need to ring some > alarm bells. > I don't think it would be hard to get the email addresses, and I doubt whether it would ring any alarm bells.
Even posting a form from a shell script isn't difficult: I used to use one the check Telstra's website so see whether ADSL was available in areas of interest. Hint: man lynx -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
