Christopher Adams wrote: > >A list owner of one of our 500+ mailing lists notified me that >postings from their non-archived list was being harvested by >archiveorange.com and could be found via Google. I found that many of >our lists are archived on this site, and this is not something that we >really want. I am just querying the list to see if this has happened >with others using Mailman. The website explains that archiveorange >"subscribes" to lists and then harvests messages. It seems that the >only way this could happen to a non-archived list is for the mailbox >directories to readable to the outside. Is there something else that >is going on here?
Yes. One of the "members" of the archived list is the archiveorange.com archiver, so that they receive list posts as they are sent. From their web site, the address may be [email protected]. If in fact archiveorange.com does this without fully informed affirmative consent of the list owner, that is highly unethical and deplorable, but they wouldn't be the only ones. answerpot.com is another. For answerpot, I have ^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$ in the ban_list of all my lists. The archiveorange.com web site implies that the list owner must add [email protected] to the list to enable archiving, and that they don't do it. If the list doesn't require approval for subscription, it may be possible for anyone to request subscription of the [email protected] address. I don't know if this address will respond to a confirmation email, but if it does, I would add it to the ban_list of all lists (see <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/add_banned.py>). -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
