Cynthia- Good question - if everything is working right, spammers should not be able to harvest addresses from our list archives.The archives that appear in our site are produced by a free, non-commercial service called Mail-Archive (<www.mail-archive.com>. They are set up so that they do not display the E-mail addresses of people posting.
The Folkschool-list itself is currently hosted by Topica, and it is also possible to read list archives there. (One reason I'm using Mail-Archive is that Topica only maintains 1 year of messages in its archives.) If you have a Topica member account, and you are a member of our list, when you read a message in the archive there you have a "reply to sender" option which reveals the address of the original poster. However, if you are a member of the public (not a list member) reading the archives, you do not have this option, and you will not see the sender's address. Topica has a good explanation of their anti-spam policies within their site. All this does not mean that there isn't a hole someplace that I'm not aware of. Spam is something to be avoided if at all possible, so if anyone sees a way in which E-mail addresses could be taken off our Web site, please let me know and I'll do whatever I can to fix the problem. Jon At 11:39 AM 11/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, >I'm wondering if our webpages with the archives for this list are >harvestable by Spammers searching for e-mail addresses. I'm working very >hard to keep my personal e-mail address OFF the internet, and it occurred to >me this morning that this is one place that it is appearing - which I had >not thought about when I joined this list since I wasn't thinking about the >website, just the e-mail. What does anyone know about this? > >-cynthia Jonathan Falk Pine Tree Folk School RR 2, Box 7162 Carmel, ME 04419 (207)848-2433 <http://www.ptfolkschool.org> **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
