RE: [cobalt-users] Re: When is the list getting a new listmaster ?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > MHonarc is another option, though I prefer Pipermail.
> 
>    Regardless of the system used, it should be placed behind 
> a simple password. It's mind-numbingly stupid for these 
> archives (or archives of _any_ mailing list, but this one in 
> particular since we should _all_ know better as
> sysadmins) to be openly accessable by any email-snarfing 
> robot out there. The argument that people are too stupid to 
> input a simple password is paled by the massive amounts of 
> spam that WILL be sent to list addresses because of the open archives.

Fortunately the list was changed so that your email address isn't
attached to every post. Unfortunately there are some lazy/rude people on
the list who don't take the time to snip email addresses from the body
of the post, (or anything from the post they're replying to), or have
their email program configured to put the From: at the top of the reply.
I'm not familiar with mailman, but maybe the part of the program that
turns x@xxxxx into a mailto: link could be disabled which may stop some
of the harvesting on those errant posts.

> 
>    On the lists I control, there are NO web-based archives; 
> all archives are accessed via email, subscribe accounts only. 
> Is it _possible_ for them to be harvested? Yes. Is it likely 
> that spammers will take that kind of time when there are so 
> many _open_ archives out there like the one attached to this 
> list to snarf addresses from? Nope.
> 

If people would take a moment to snip any email addresses from their
replies, it wouldn't be a problem on this list. If you put your email
address in your sig, oh well.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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