[CF-Devel] ot: list archive/spam concern

Preston Crow crow at bear.cs.dartmouth.edu
Mon Apr 23 15:47:35 CDT 2001


I'm concerned that the archive of this list exposes email addresses to
spammers.  The issue is that spammers will run web robots to search for
email addresses, and they will find all of ours in the archives.

Is the archive something we control?

Could we have a sed script to do something like:
   s/@[a-zA-Z1-9-_.]*[.]/@{domain}./g
That would hide the addresses from the web, making posting to the list
safe.

I've seen one or two list archives do this.

--PC

    
    


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