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[Cyber Source]

I meant "bot" (not bod)

Cyber Source wrote:

> 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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