Charles Maurer sez: >David Slik wrote (08/06/2003): > >>If anyone is interested in hosting these messages, (perhaps via something >>like <http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html>), I would be happy >>to export these messages and send them. > >Please do NOT do this without either removing e-mail addresses from the >archive or making them unreadable by a robot. E-mail addresses in >mailing-list archives are one of the prime sources of address used by >spammers. I will not sign up on any list that publishes e-mail addresses >on the web and I would not have have signed up for this one if I knew the >possibility might be in the offing. > > >Charles Maurer > >------------------------------------------------------------- >5 Grandview Court >Dundas, Ontario >Canada L9H 5C8 >Telephone: 905.627.7035 >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message originates from a Microsoft-free zone. >------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
This wouldn't be an issue in a database driven archive. However, it is also a fairly easy thing to mung email addresses so they all say something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] so people can figure out the email addresses if need be. mhonarc, while free, is not my personal first choice to do this work, however. I'll see if I can locate my old notes and post the others I found for people to examine if they're interested in that side of things. :) However, the next thing to figure out is do you hit all the email addresses in a message or just those in headers? If you hit the whole message, then you've just changed email addresses which might have been provided as informational sources. I really do think it'd be worth it to work a couple of these minor details and go for it. It's frequently requested and would be helpful. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
