On Monday 08 July 2002 12:10 pm, Bogardi Janos wrote: > Hello Scott, > > Thanks for the answer. I'm afraid I was not specific enough. > > I'm aware of the option of setting the archives access to private. However, > I'd like to keep it public - just to please honest users :)
I'm not sure how you would accomplish the contradictory goals. If the archives are public, that means they are on a web page that anyone can access. If anyone can access it, then so can spam harvesters. Ergo, a sufficiently smart spambot can retrieve email addresses from any public web page. The virtual URL /robots.txt, defined by the Robots Exclusion Protocol, is supposed to be able to tell any spider not to scan certain pages. I doubt, however, that spambots will respect this courtesy. Worse yet, legitimate search engines *will* respect the file, so you'll probably get scanned by spambots but not by real search engines -- the exact opposite of what you would like. I'd love to hear that someone has a better alternative, but the only way I can think of to keep public archives from being harvested by spambots is to obfuscate the email addresses therein. For that, see below... > > The second option you mention obfuscates email addresses only in the "list > members" page - which, in my setup, is only available for the list admin. I'm running Mailman 2.1b2, and the e-mail addresses *are* obfuscated in the archives. My address appears as "courtney at 4th.com" in the archives; I just went to one of my lists and verified this. Perhaps this is an added feature in 2.1b2; I haven't tested it with 2.0.x. Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/courtney.pubkey ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
