Why not make the entire archive challenge/response authentication based? This way, only GTA users can gain access.
It may be a bit more painful for some, but worth while in my opinion. Danny -----Original Message----- From: david raistrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:16 PM To: David Morris Cc: GnatBox Users Group Subject: RE: [gb-users] SPAM email exploiting mail services On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, David Morris wrote: > The annotation comments suggest a spider is scanning some kind of web > source. So I checked out the gnatbox list archives .... there is a cute > protector that avoids planting email addresses on the web page. BUT it > took me less than 30 minutes to crack the protection. Certianly it's possible to work around the reply method that mail-archive.com uses. I'm not so sure that a spammer would need to do that, though, since so many mailing list messages include full email addresses in the body of the mail. Often in the signature, but even if you carefully keep your email address of the signature you'll find that someone will include it in a quote: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03625.html Again, I hope to be able to obfuscate all email addresses for our archives when I get them online. Would people prefer simple obfuscation or would they prefer something that leaves the email address entirely unusable? For example, I could change [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: spam_at_gta_dot_com or I could just drop the domain entirely: spam_at The first would allow the address to be interpreted and would leave a way for a future archive reader to contact you directly regarding an issue you've posted or asked about. On higher volume lists this is particularly helpful since it helps prevent repeat questions, or questions for clarification, from coming to the list without new content. The second would require that anyone wanting more information about the contents of a message found in the archive would be forced to send the question to the list. Comment, suggestions? ...david -- David Raistrick Systems Administrator - Global Technology Associates, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are the opinions of David Raistrick, not necessarily those of GTA, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
