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