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