On Monday, May 28, 2001, at 07:09 PM, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> 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."
>
That's pretty much what I did. I still get questions from people who
blow past that, hit the password prompt, and then write the admin for
help...
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