Hello, The general solution currently in vogue is to obscure the vital part of the e-mail address that contains the domain information on all pieces of information that are potentially in the public domain (and therefore can be harvested by spiders), such as web-pages that host the list.
Therefore, my post will appear on a page as: "This post was made by [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Anyone who wishes to correspond directly with a person making the post from the same interface then is forced to log in, which means he must be a registered user. Once he logs in, he is only presented with a textarea for the message and a "send" button. The mail address is never completely revealed. I guess spiders are intelligent enough now to interpret strings such as "userName-AT-domainName-DOT-com" used on web-pages earlier or other such forms which were used earlier to temporarily mislead e-mail grabbers. regards krishnan mani > -----Original Message----- > From: BAZLEY, Sebastian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 3:59 PM > To: 'Jakarta General List' > Subject: RE: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email > addresses > > > Would it be possible to mangle/remove the e-mail addresses > before publishing > the postings? > This would eventually fix the mirrors. > > However, unless the mailing list software can also be > persuaded to hide the > originators e-mail addresses (might be difficult?), it would > not protect > against others who archive the raw content. > > Might be worth trying a combination of approaches. > > -- > The opinions expressed herein are my own, and are not > necessarily endorsed > by my employer ... > -----Original Message----- > From: Tetsuya Kitahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 June 2003 06:11 > To: Jakarta General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email > addresses > > > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:48:33 -0400 (EDT) > (Subject: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses) > "Andrus Adamchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [PROPOSAL] > > > > There maybe other exlanations for these things, but still > it would be wise > > to pull the archives out of the site. Of course there are > people who would > > want to search them for information (since browseable > Jakarta archives are > > ....well, should I say hard to use :-)), but those archives can be > > transferred to gmane.org or something... > > > > Thoughts? Anyone else got hit by that (I remember someone posting > > something similar long time ago). > > -0.5: > Remain the archives on http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/ > and do the robot.txt (or .htaccess) protect for the robot > search engines. > tar.gz archives are very useful for me. > > -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
