Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perhaps you can just change your sig to the nmh list to
>
> --Dan
Well, there's at least one other Dan on the list, so I'd probably want to be
a little more detailed than that...
> I doubt mail-archive.com hosting a few hundred lists would consider
> interfering with the *body* of a message.
No, I wasn't suggesting it for them.
> Those who would like to
> mangle perhaps at the list manager level, may also want to consider:
>
> The Mail Archive utilizes two levels of electronic
> countermeasures to prevent spam incidents. First, we explicitly
> block spam harvesting robots (spambots) from accessing our
> server. We deny access, at the server level, for any software
> that matches the browser ID of a known spambot.
That's nice, but it doesn't catch non-known-spambots, like ones that
masquerade as Mozilla or whatever...
> at http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html.
>
> In any case, those who do not want their message archived can always
> add the header
>
> X-No-Archive: yes
Not a good solution if you _do_ want your messages archived but don't want
your address harvested, or in the situation of someone else quoting your
address and not using X-No-Archive themselves.
> Hopefully, the nmh-workers list manager does not remove this (and
> should not add it either if you guys decide to use mail-archive.com).
>
> Finally, at mail-archive, they do not mangle, they hide the email
> addresses from headers.
I know, I was just saying that hiding addresses in headers leaves lots of
other opportunities for addresses to appear and be harvested. I'm glad
their showing _some_ effort, though.
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