Mailling List Archives

[John Seth]

That is true, and is one reason why the archives are not linked to from 
the main webpage, but must be accessed directly. The only way a spider 
or other email harvesting bot could obtain the email addresses is to 
have someone else link to the archives somewhere other than NFLUG's list.

Until I find a way to accomplish a good munge, or just remove the email 
addresses from the archive process, I personally, will not link to them 
anywhere on the web.

   - Tony


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Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:37:29 -0400
From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Mailling List Archives

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/
 >
 >
 >