On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:11:26PM +1000, Terry Manderson wrote:
> Hi Nocol People,
>
> A little complaint actually, and something everyone should be aware
> off.
>
> I try to be carefull about where I send my email address, since
> they tend to end up on spam lists pretty easily if you aren't carefull.
>
> recently I recieved some spam email, and I searched google for my email
> address thinking I may have put it somewhere silly.
>
> the results are that the web based nocol-list archives are browsable
> (versus searchable) thus all email addresses are visable.
>
> Can I suggest one of two things,
>
> - make the archives a database style access so web crawlers
> can't pick addresses so easily
> - mangle the email addresses on the listmembers behalf.
Realistically, I think that list-maintainers should respect the old
"X-no-archive" header -- perhaps even go a step-above and purposely
obfuscate people's email addresses such that a robot would have a
hard time deciphering it but a human eye would be able to pick out
the address at a glance (then again, any pattern is programmable
easy enough in a robot).
> I'm not saying that nocol-users is at fault, tho it IS a distinct
> possibility.
>
> Terry
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