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>Another list owner recently told me that he was avoiding activating the web
>archive interface on his lists out of fear that if the interface were
>active, professional spammers could use it to "mine" for e-mail addresses,
>just as they do to capture addresses on usenet groups.
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>I can understand why someone might set review= private or owner to prevent
>this kind of trouble, but I have never heard of a problem stemming from the
>archives being available. I mean, if someone really wanted the addresses
>that badly, they could just subscribe to lots of lists and then capture
>posters' addresses
>as they came through.
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>Is this a legitimate concern? If so, how big a one?
Yes, it ius a legitimate concer, but a list-owner can divert such
problems, if deemed neccesary, by setting the subscription by owner
keyword,
* Subscription= By Owner
thus any attempt to subscribe to the list would have to go
through a person first, and spammers don't really want to deal with
people. They just want to spam. As a result, most will not have much
oppertunity if you set your list up in this way.
As far as the archives, if you set your list to
* Send= Private
such a limitation will also be placed on the archives of the list.
Glenn
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