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There is one small problem with that and correct me if I'm wrong but 
whenever I create web pages for people I purposely keep there email 
addresses out of the pages directly. Couldn't a bod spider through those 
archives now and pickup all the email addresses therein? I know that you 
have to be a member for the nflug site itself to forward emails but the 
members email addresses themselves are in those archives. Fortunately, I 
have spamassasin doing a very nice job on our email servers but for 
those without such protection, they may start to get pounded with spam. 
Is there not a way to have your perl script mangle the members email 
addresses or strip them off altogether? I think what you've done for the 
list is great but I also think this could lead to a spam problem. Any 
other thoughts?

John Seth wrote:

> Just an update for those that are interested. I recently came across a 
> perl program that converts mailbox format inboxes to HTML and creates 
> the HTML pages for date & thread sorted displays. I stopped myself 
> from deleting any email coming in from the list, and gathered up what 
> I had previously and new, and threw them into an mbox formatted file, 
> and converted them.
>
> What I have kept, is now archived on the NFLUG.com website, and I now 
> have my mail server saving and converting any new email from the 
> mailing list. Currently, about once a week I will update the archives 
> to ensure it is working as desired, then... I'll make it a twice daily 
> thing most likely, and archive on a per month basis.
>
> If anyone has not deleted any email, and perhaps has all the NFLUG 
> email in a single file... feel free to email it to me :) or burn it to 
> cd and snail-mail it (or hand deliver if ya feel like driving to 
> Fredonia). I'll be more than happy, and anxious, to get archives up 
> for the list.
>
> You can view the current archives at:
>
> http://www.nflug.com/archives/
>
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