On 28 Jan 2005 at 23:36, Simon Troup wrote: > I'd just like to chip in that if you do a search for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] you get a bunch of hits from mailing > lists such as PHP and Suse Linux - I didn't realise that those lists > published their archives WITH email addresses to the web.
Because of this discussion I googled my email address and what I discovered was that my email address is listed in archives that show up in Google, but when you open the page, the email address is obscured! For some reason, Google's web-crawling spider gets the real address, but the actual web page does not. That looks like a huge error in design on the part of the people running the archive -- why obfuscate something that the most widely used automated spider can see? Does that mean that any spider, including a spammer's email harvesting bot can see the addresses, too? If that's the kind of obfuscation to be used, then the archive should not be public. If email addresses are obfuscated, they should be wholly obfuscated, and not available to either human or software viewers of the page. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
