Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:02:44 -0400
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Mike Mee wrote:
> I'm trying to solve the following scenario:
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> - the list is public
> - the list has archives
> - posters routinely reference previous postings using the URL they get from
> either searching or in the daily digest
> - each month I want to edit the postings to munge email addresses to
> protect them from spambots crawling the archives looking for them
> - I may further want to trim some postings (e.g. remove footers) or even
> delete some postings
>
> Q: will the URLs survive the notepad edits? Note that I'm not re-ordering
> the messages, but their length may change.
>
> Q: Or, restating the above question, perhaps, what do the parameters to the
> following url mean:
The notebooks will survive being edits with Notepad, assuming you do not
delete any of the lines that Listserv uses for parsing purposes.
Frankly, I think you can shield your subscribers from spambots in a much
easier and just as reliable method. Just make Notebooks private,
subscriptions either private,confirm, and postings private,confirm. I
have yet to see a spambot that would bridge those steps.
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