On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Mike Mee wrote: > I'm trying to solve the following scenario: > > - the list is public > - the list has archives > - posters routinely reference previous postings using the URL they get from > either searching or in the daily digest > - each month I want to edit the postings to munge email addresses to > protect them from spambots crawling the archives looking for them > - I may further want to trim some postings (e.g. remove footers) or even > delete some postings > > Q: will the URLs survive the notepad edits? Note that I'm not re-ordering > the messages, but their length may change. > > Q: Or, restating the above question, perhaps, what do the parameters to the > following url mean: The notebooks will survive being edits with Notepad, assuming you do not delete any of the lines that Listserv uses for parsing purposes. Frankly, I think you can shield your subscribers from spambots in a much easier and just as reliable method. Just make Notebooks private, subscriptions either private,confirm, and postings private,confirm. I have yet to see a spambot that would bridge those steps.