I guess I didn't make myself clear. I agree on the ability to search in Google for the archived list but its already archived by mail-archive.org and the emails are protected there.
Example: http://www.mail-archive.com/wireless%40lists.bawug.org/msg05707.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [BAWUG] BAWUG email addresses being published on Web > > People often find what they're looking for by searching > Google and getting BAWUG posts as their answers (OK, at least > I do). I think the moral here is not to use very private > email addresses on very public mailing lists. ;) > > Drew > > Tony Spencer wrote: > > > Ugg. I was trying to figure out where SPAM'rs were picking > up my very > > private email address from and did a search for my email > address in Google. > > I was disappointed to find that the html archives of the BAWUG list > > are indexed in Google and often contain email addresses > (usually from > > quoted > > replies) > > > > ex. > http://lists.bawug.org/pipermail/wireless/2004-January/014091.html > > > > Unfortunately pipermail doesn't cleanse posts of email > addresses like > > mail-archive.com does. > > > > At the very least can the wwwadmin create a robots.txt with the > > following in > > it: > > > > User-agent: * > > Disallow: /pipermail/ > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
