I HATE SPAM (was Re: Mouse swapping on a laptop)

Derek Doucette derek at derek.homeunix.org
Sun Aug 3 23:29:15 EDT 2003


Steven W. Orr said:
> On Sunday, Aug 3rd 2003 at 19:04 -0400, quoth Derek Doucette:
>
> =>> By making the archive only open to subscribers, we completely
> eliminate =>>  any address harvesting.
> =>
> =>I think that a better solution would be to find a way to strip the
> e-mail =>addresses.  I don't know how many times I have found solutions
> by running =>a google search and coming up with a solution in a mailing
> list archive.  =>This is esp. true with linux related materials.
>
> Why is this better than restricting the archives to subscribers? Anyone
>  who wants to browse the archives can subscribe and do it. At least
> we're  assured that they won't be a robot.
>
But by not having a robot hit the archives, that also means that spiders
would also not get through, therefore leaving the information out of the
search engines and not at my disposal.

Derek Doucette
http://derek.homeunix.org





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