On 05:22 PM 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.
Do you remember the following post? I found it to be quite interesting,
and marked it as "important" in my list archives. I'm curious if/why you
find this approach to be unacceptable.
jc
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>Subject: Re: robots.txt
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>JC Dill wrote:
>>
>> On 12:21 AM 2/28/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>>
>> >What do I do? That would be telling. Other than saying my archives are
>> >behind a password, are protected by a robots.txt, and aren't in the
global
>> >search engines or anywhere the spambots can get to without a lot of work,
>>
>> robots.txt is widely ignored by spammer email harvester robots.
>
>Sympa MLM archives are protected by a cookie. This cookie is sent to anyone
>acknoledging a simple form (method post) saying "i'm not a spammer".
>Currently no
>harvester accept cookies nor post forms.
>You can test it with a sample : http://listes.cru.fr/wws/arc/sympa-users
>
>Removing emails from messages headers in archives (using mhonarc nospam
option)
>is not saqfe enough because there is a lot of emails in the message body
>(signature etc).
>
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