At 9:01 AM -0500 1/8/2000, Tom Neff wrote:
> You should never show addresses in a publicly accessible mailing list
> archive if you can help it. Leave the names (where possible) but hide the
> addresses. You can even do this in message bodies if you want to try to
> protect signatures.
Well, I just did a Sherlock lookup of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and
found 65 hits, including one from a list-managers digest archive from
1997. Do you know who's disclosing your address? (grin)
Some of the references are ones that, since my address is and needs
to be public, are okay. But there's also that site in Australia still
publically broadcasting archives of semper fi and Evangelist from
years and years ago with my name blasted all over them. On the other
hand, it's rather nice that none of my e-mail lists are showing up in
the lists....
(a while back, I put all my archives behind a restricted robots.txt,
on the assumption that the global search engines were the most likely
to be hit by the harvesters. So far, that tradeoff has turned out to
work pretty well, but security by obscurity isn't really a good idea
long-term....
> I would also warn people joining the support list that their postings will
> be archived for public view, and that they should watch what they post, or
> use a spamproofed email account, or both.
And also, since it comes up every once in a while, articles can't be
removed from archives any more than articles can be unpublished from
a newspaper.... These arguments don't happen often, but man, they can
be unpleasant.
I remove articles from archives under very, very restrictive
circumstances, such as disclosure of proprietary information, acute
hostility and abuse, or similar significant nastiness.
--
Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Pokemon is a game where children go into the woods and capture furry
little creatures and then bring them home and teach them to pit fight.
