On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:22PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:38:51PM -0500, Richard Troth wrote: > > > > FYI, for those who care about such things, > > > > this list is being tracked by http://www.mail-archive.com/. > > > > Sorry for the duplicate info if this was mentioned before. > > > > > > > > Why should you care? > > > > Such tracking is easy fodder for e-mail address harvesters. BAD > > > > Tracking services make web search of the list easy. GOOD > > > > Personally, I have other ways of checking the archives, > > > > so I prefer to NOT have the list tracked nor peered to NetNews. > > > > But I must confess that I have used such services. > > > > > > mail-archives obfuscate emails the Right-Way: you need to actually post > > > a form to get an email. To harvest many emails you need to ring some > > > alarm bells. > > > > > I don't think it would be hard to get the email addresses, and I doubt > > whether it would ring any alarm bells. > > > > Even posting a form from a shell script isn't difficult: I used to use > > one the check Telstra's website so see whether ADSL was available in > > areas of interest. > > Yes, but then you're logged at least once in their server per email. If > you want to harvest-emails-fast you'll create tons of entries in their > logs.
Probably nobody would notice. What if they did? Probably, if someone did notice, they'd see the IP address of my ISP's (transparent) proxy, and quite likely my ISP doesn't log the information as to who did it. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
