At 5:22 PM -0700 5/28/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> On Monday, May 28, 2001, at 04:05 PM, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>
>>So, Chuq, may I ask: do you get a lot of "What's the archive password?" re-
>>quests from list members or others with legitimate rights to visit them?
>>
>Yes. That's why I'm looking for better ways to protect an archive
>but make it easy for legitimate users to get to it. The spambots
>force my hand (IMHO) in protecting them, but putting them behind a
>password is awkward. I've tried a few other things, but nothing
>worth talking about, so I'm still looking.
Just a thought. The idea is to stop the automatic harvesters; you
can't really stop the humans, they'll just join the list to get the
password. So you could write on the page leading to the archives "The
archive is password-protected, and the user name is 'foo' and the
password is 'bar'; we did this to reduce the chance that the archive
will be harvested."
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
