On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:02:51AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: > Mary Gardiner wrote: > > Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on > >gmane.org for both posting and reading. > > Just what I really want. Another source of email addresses for spammers > to pillage.
http://gmane.org/faq.php In particular, I think you may be interested in: * You bastards! You archived my message! You can suppress your own articles if you follow the instructions here <http://gmane.org/expiry.php>. And: * Ok, but I still want to remove the list, because I don't want address harvesters to be able to grab email addresses. Have you considered whether the list could still be carried by Gmane, but with address encryption <http://gmane.org/tmda.php> switched on? And: * I figured out how to crack the address obfuscation in the web interface! You just replace "<at>" with "@"! You guys are obviously not 3l33+! Er, yes. However, current accepted wisdom in the anti-spam community is that spam harvesting bots do not do even trivial unobfuscation, so nothing more than this trivial scheme is necessary. If that changes, the obfuscation scheme will change, too. As <http://gmane.org/expiry.php> points out, you can set headers if you wish to declare that your messages should not be archived. This is not gmane specific AFAIK, I'm pretty sure other list archiving software can understand expiry headers. Otherwise (and perhaps even then...) it seems reasonable to expect posts to a public forum to be, well, public. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
