On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:35:22 GMT, "Russell, D (Duncan)" <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> Sorry, what I mean is if your list has a public archive, then theoretically
> anyone can view the archives of your list. Could those people then run an
> automated system over those archives to harvest the email addresses of
> everyone who has posted to the list ? Or does the fact that they are served
> up but the wa cgi script protect from such mechanisms ?

It's sufficient to stop the average webcrawler from indexing the pages.

Of course, if you're a spammer, you already know how to get the list of
public archives, and invoke the CGI for each lists's archives...

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech