On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Pete Weiss wrote: > >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. > End Reply > > ... and pray that some other archiving bot hasn't already [been] > subscribed and now is freely available. True, but the original question wouldn't solve that problem either and its a hell of a lot of effort to sheild people from a relatively minor inconvenience with little likelihood of ever happening on a well configured list.