On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:22PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > 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.
Yes, but then you're logged at least once in their server per email. If you want to harvest-emails-fast you'll create tons of entries in their logs. Whereas in the case of our local listserv, the harvesters are given the emails in a very convinent format, which requires about only one log hit per month per list. Try http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?linux-390 and follow the links from there. BTW: this whole server is not indexed by (legitimate) web crawlers (see http://www2.marist.edu/robots.txt). Thus you won't find your email from there in google. But you won't find your answer from there in google as well, which is very bad. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
