Daniel Templeton wrote:
> Exactly. If I want to provide links to subscribe or unsubscribe to the
> lists, I can't. The Storage Community's discussion page is a good example:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/discussions/
>
> Try clicking on any of the subscribe/unsubscribe links.
Which is to say that the aliases are already exposed and
harvestable in one convenient place on the system already,
so making it hard for other pages to do what they want
because they might also expose things that are already
exposed is a pointless effort.
The horses have already left the barn...
-John
>
> Daniel
>
> John Plocher wrote:
>> Mike Kupfer wrote:
>>> Daniel> If I'm going to provide links to my mailing lists on a page, I
>>> Daniel> need to get around the site's annoying habit of replacing
>>> Daniel> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with name at domain dot com, even in the link.
>>>
>>> This is not something we encourage, because it invites auto-harvesting
>>> of the email address and a resulting increase in spam.
>>
>>
>> The "discussions" page points to the jive forum instead of the alias
>> itself; the only exposed aliases are the subscribe and unsubscribe
>> ones:
>>
>> <a
>> href="http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=31";>OpenSolaris:
>> help</a>
>> <div class="Small">List for discussing difficulties in getting,
>> building and installing OpenSolaris.</div>
>> <ul>
>> <li><a
>> href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Subscribe</a></li>
>>
>> <li><a
>> href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Unsubscribe</a></li>
>>
>>
>> </ul>
>>
>> -John
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