Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is the first one I've actually heard of,
> though. In that case, I'd be all for it.
>
> I have been archiving there 3 of my mailinglists (2 with about
> 20-30msg/day) and it has been working very well---and I have not heard
> any complaints from subscribers regarding spam.
>
> The maintainer is a very responsive guy.
>
> You can check out any of the archived lists to see how the header is
> mangled. For example:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Ah yes, didn't occur to me when you said "hiding sender addresses" that only
the address in the header was being talked about. People like me who
reiterate their email addresses in their .sigs will be exposing them. And I
just checked and mail-archive is indexed by AltaVista, so there certainly is
a danger from the SPAM-bots that trawl the web picking up all strings
matching an email address regexp.
I'd still be up for it, though. I'd change my .sig to either leave out or
mangle my address. As long as we made it clear on the web page (and in the
subscribe confirmation email, if that's possible) that the archiving goes
on, and sent out a warning email to the list saying that it was about to
start, it'd be acceptable to me.
Hmmm, of course there'd still be opportunities to expose addresses, like
when quoting source files that include people's addresses in comments and so
on.
I guess my ideal mailing list archiver would mangle everything that fit an
email address regexp. Of course, the regexp might accidentally match
something in uuencoded text or something, so it should insert a line
somewhere in the message warning that mangling had been done. The message
could be a hyperlink to a page describing the mangling scheme. It should be
easy for a human to manually demangle, but impractical to write a SPAM-bot
to do it. For instance, you could include a special string in all the
mangled names which would be unique to each mailing list (and which
hopefully wouldn't appear in the URL).
For instance, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" might get mangled as something
like ":MANGLED:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:MANGLED:".
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