Russ, don't be relieved. This protection *ONLY* applies to the web interface!!! Ben Parker wrote earlier about this thread: "The feature being discussed here <[log in to unmask]> applies only to viewing the list message archives via the WWW interface for lists with Notebook= ..., Public. List message archives requested by email commands will show the actual email addresses." A non-subscriber can GET or SEARCH the archives with e-mail commands and see all the e-mail addresses. This would be a better way to harvest addresses anyway if that was your intent. Of course a crawler wouldn't normally do this. At 11:36 AM -0300 6/22/06, Russ Hunt wrote >I'm relieved to find that this actually does seem to be >confusing to lots of people other than me (I'd thought it was >just me being dense). > >Here's my understanding of this: > >Private list, no problem. Only subscribers can see anything. > >Public list, anybody can look at messages, but all email >addresses are masked (thus, no harvesting). > >If you want to see the addresses you need to acquire a password. >My understanding was that you need to be a subscriber to do >this, but I was apparently wrong: really it makes no practical >difference; the main issue is that the addresses don't sit on >the open Web, ripe for harvesting. > >Thanks to everybody who helped me with this. > >-- Russ >St. Thomas University >http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ -- Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. Bill Verity - 814-865-4758 Fax: 814-863-7049 215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services, Penn State University At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)