[Lancaster] Fw: Open list archives

Mark Williams llug at lodestar.icom43.net
Thu Sep 28 23:14:32 BST 2006


FYI (for myself, I dislike having my addresses open to spam harvesters) :-

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:49 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> If you're running an open list archive and you think it is at all
> possible that your list has some people on it who aren't aware of
> this fact, please could you make sure to let them know? [1]
> 
> The munging of addresses in the HTML archives isn't very good, and
> the raw mbox file is also available for download and to search
> engines.
> 
> People who don't want to appear in mailman archives can set the
> header:
> 
> X-No-Archive: yes
> 
> I am also looking into some other external archivers to use for
> those that want them, that will have better address obscuring
> features.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> [1] Personally when I post to public lists I expect my mail to be
>     public but apparently this isn't obvious to a lot of other
>     people and I give up trying to understand why.
> 
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