Hi Jauder,
I am carbon copying this response to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a small discussion group for the mail-archive.com service. >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ to >http://www.mail-archive.com/archive%makelist.com/ That's a good idea. If I put symbolic links from archive%makelist.com to [EMAIL PROTECTED], do you think that would help? (It would keep legacy archives indexed by Altavista from breaking.) >and similarly with the embedded email addresses with a note to >change/convert the % back to a @ for actual email addresses. That's probably going to be slightly more work on my end. I don't have the right abstractions in place to easily change that, and post processing gets to be a little expensive when we scale up, but there are a few ways to tackle this. Let me moll both of those changes over a bit. As for your list, would you mind letting me know which one it is? I track spam incidents using two actively archived lists (gossip and infra) and one retired list (hurl). Any spam that hits both gossip and infra is definitely from someone harvesting mail-archive.com. If it hits the retired list (hurl) as well, I know that the spammer mined the list address before I put in all the anti-spambot changes. Point being, I have have detected very little spam in recent months, (there has been a little bit of legacy harvested spam) so I'd like to see how hard your list is hit, and get an idea of how much of that is because of exposure to mail-archive.com. I'm surprised and disappointed to hear the bad news. Sorry for the long answer, and thanks for the feedback. For your information some people are requesting changes in the opposite direction (adding back mailto: links for easy replies, etc.) but I haven't really made any decisions in that area. The arguements are all laying around http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected], should you be interested. Jeff
