On 20 Mar 00, at 10:46, Jane Lyle wrote:

> We've just found out that our list, along with numerous others, is being
> ported to the remarq.com Web site without our permission. Apparently
> someone (naturally not @remarq.com) subscribed in order to redistribute
> our posts. Douglas, I'm told that your list is there, too.

FWIW, my list is there too. It's a list with Private archives, and
requires a confirmation for subscribing, so I was miffed to see it
there. So I registered to Remarq with a hotmail account so I could
see what they have for my list. Here's what I got:


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> the message board owner to subscribe you. When you are successfully
> subscribed, the message board will be available from your personalized
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> request to the message board owner please click
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> Please note:
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> or days to complete. If RemarQ receives any email from the moderator,
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> When you are successfully subscribed to a group it will be available
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Well, at least they aren't rebroadcasting my private archives
publicly. I tried clicking on the "Subscribe" link -- this tried to run a
cgi, where one of the parameters was "doconfirm". Apparently it
knows about confirmations and it's got some programming to
handle the confirmations. But also apparently it doesn't work too
well -- it kept timing out and I couldn't get subscribed that way. The
LISTSERV log showed no sign of a subscription attempt.

So, it looks like if you keep your archives private and you require
confirmation for subscriptions, you've effectively protected your list
from this site. Even if it worked, it seems like it's more along the
lines of a hotmail.com address -- an anonymizer rather than an
archiver.

Francoise