Mailling List Archives

[Cyber Source]

ok cool

John Seth wrote:

> 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/
> >
> >
> >
>