On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Pete Weiss wrote:

>  >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.
> End Reply
>
> ... and pray that some other archiving bot hasn't already [been]
> subscribed and now is freely available.

True, but the original question wouldn't solve that problem either and its
a hell of a lot of effort to sheild people from a relatively minor
inconvenience with little likelihood of ever happening on a well
configured list.