At 07:19 PM 7/28/2002 +0700, Gue wrote the following: >I was googling something yesterday, and by accident, I found ACCMail >list archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/accmail@listserv.aol.com/ > >I think it's no good. SPAMMER can harvest our mail address from this >site because this site do not hide email address. Whoever you are, >please remove our list from mail-archive.com . If we need to search past >message, LISTSERV command have very good commands for searching archives.
I added the site to mail-archive way back in 1998 or 1999 just after they started. If you notice, the mail archives at Accmail expire every 6 months or so. There was a period of time when members were interested in answers with sample accmail methods to questions that had been asked previously but had expired from the Accmail archives. Several members had keep the archives on their own machine and made them available to other users. I liked the idea that mail-archive would keep records forever so added our mailing list to it. Do you really think that a person interested in sending spam will access the mail archive and then read message by message trying to harvest e-mail address from which to spam? I hardly think so, when there are far easier methods. If you check with all the bulk e-mail programs, the e-mail addresses are harvested from USENET (far and away the largest source of addresses) seconded by web pages with mailto links. Getting addresses from mailing lists is now just to much work especially since LISTSERV (the largest mailing list manager) doesn't send e-mail addresses to people who request an index listing -- the method used in the past to obtain a list of e-mail addresses. The robots that travel the web use web pages and USENET postings. To access a mailing list that is archived is just about impossible because the robot would have to access the archive and then select message by message. Most robots just select pages that are indexed. In addition, the mail archive also uses the meta tag [META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex"]. I can guarantee that my e-mail address has been harvested from my web page and also USENET postings, not from mailing lists that I belong too and not from the mail-archive web site. -- Gerry Boyd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
