[Mailman-Users] Farmed addresses from text archive?

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Tue Aug 3 01:01:04 CEST 2004


Jeff Barger wrote:
 >On Jul 30, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Warren Woodward wrote:
>> 
>> What do people do to prevent this on their servers?  The list owner 
>> would like to keep the archives public while protecting his
>> subscribers. Seems to me that we should make the "downloadable
>> version" optional, or perhaps force a zip of its contents to make is
>> less bot friendly?  Have I overlooked some options, as usual?
 >
 >PUBLIC_MBOX = No ?

I think this controls only whether the list.mbox/list.mbox file has a 
public link, not whether the monthly "Downloadable version" is publicly 
available.

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