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[ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses
- Subject: [ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses
- From: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)
- Date: Thu Feb 10 07:31:19 2005
- In-reply-to: <1108001168.8059.1.camel@blue>
- References: <[email protected]> <1107990810.4086.3.camel@blue> <[email protected]> <1107996751.7708.2.camel@blue> <[email protected]> <1107998715.7844.2.camel@blue> <[email protected]> <1108001168.8059.1.camel@blue>
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 20:41 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>
>>The way I understand it is that if an email contains the header
>>"X-no-archive: yes" then MHonArc will not archive the email thus
>>preventing it from showing up on the web archive.
>>
>>Of course, that would not prevent the email from showing in a message
>>reply (e.g. Jim Popovitch's email will show in my reply). It seems to
>>me that it would not be very difficult for the archiver to obfuscate,
>>or completely remove, the email address from the From line in the web
>>archive. I went to MHonArc's web page to see if it supports such a
>>thing and the closest I was able to find was the support of the
>>X-no-archive header. I must agree that it would be extremely
>>beneficial if the archiver would rip email address from the From field
>>before archiving but I also don't maintain the list.
>
>
> Ok, this would work for the archive at ale.org, but what about other
> archives of ALE?
As I noted, if we quick archiving addresses, everyone would have to
change their email address.
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Until later, Geoffrey