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