Re: winehq mailing list archives being harvested by spammers

[Dan Kegel]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Examples of effective privacy measures for mailing list archives
> > include:
> > - restricting archive access to list members
> > - not restricting access, but using the HTTP password mechanism
> > to discourage spiders (e.g. perforce-users mailing list)
>
> I am sorry, but this makes the archives unavailable to Google,
> which is just plain unaccetable.

Right, which is why I went on to say:
> - simply obscuring all email addresses in message headers or trailers
>
> That last countermeasure is my favorite one, since it means that
> Google will still have full access to the info in the list archive.

- Dan