 
|
| Mime-Version: |
1.0 |
| Sender: |
|
| Subject: |
|
| From: |
|
| Date: |
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:52:08 -0400 |
| In-Reply-To: |
<p05100347b76f9e4d66ff@[10.0.1.2]> |
| Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed |
| Reply-To: |
|
At 13:47 07/09/2001 Monday, Jacob Haller wrote:
>>To all:
>>
>>Have you encountered problems with spammers apparently scanning LISTSERV
>>web-based archives for subscriber e-mails (in message signatures, message
>>headers, etc.)? If so, what can one do to stop this practice?
>>
>>I've had subscribers asking about this, and I've seen references to a
>>product called WPOISON on SPAM-L. Hence, the questions.
>
>Restricting notebooks to subscribers only should reduce and possibly
>eliminate the problem depending on how sophisticated the bots are.
>
> Notebook= Yes,[...],Private
>
>Making the mailing list confidential:
>
> Confidential= Yes
>
>might also help in that it would prevent the mailing list from being
>listed on the main web archives page.
Of course if any "subscriber" is really an auto-archiving 'bot, which
then has its archives scanned by other 'bots, then you may be up that
well-known estuary without a means of locomotion.
/Pete
|
|
|
