At 5:20 PM -0800 1/7/2000, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It sounds to me like the goal is to restrict access to the archives to
> only list members, correct?
That seems to be the cleanest way to limit access to a group of
approved users -- given that being a subscriber means they've been
authorized at some level. I have no problem with a wider audience,
except it's really hard to define where "okay" ends, and exactly how
to authorize it. I'm open to suggestions. The two groups I'm
specifically trying to lock out are the e-mail address harvesters who
won't abide by a robots.txt restriction, and the occasional troll
that gets kicked off a list and goes looking for ways to create
havoc, where, by definition, a rule like "don't do this" won't work.
it's an interesting issue that I think has some real need -- it's
just not all that easy, if only because defining "good" and "not
good" are so difficult, especially programmatically.
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