On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > No, a simple script could do that. Just remove all messages > > that have > > > > <LI><EM>To</EM>: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A></LI> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Unfortunately, this post will give rise to more spam in the archive.
I don't think so,... > The problem is that the secret address for entering posts in the > archive (masked above) was harvested by spam engines, which started > sending directly to the archive without going through lynx-dev itself. Secret address ? Sounds like a configuration issue if FLORA.org has such an address that accepts messages from outside their domain(s). > Please don't post the address, as it leads to harvesting by more > engines, and more spam. ...because harvesters are more than happy with all addresses from http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/. > The problem hasn't exactly been ignored. Russell McOrmond (who runs > flora) had offered to change the posting address to something else, > which would be kept secret. He just needed to have someone from the > lynx-dev list administration contact him to set this up. As far as I > can tell, he is still waiting. He recently posted the offer again to > the list-elves mailing list. Did he also offer to munge the addresses from the archives ? > Because of the way the mail is archived, cleaning the spam would change > the indexing, voiding any published links to individual posts. It was > thought best to leave the spam, rather than break the links. Not if you clean the HTML files instead of recreating them from the spam free mbox - http://www.pervalidus.net/lynx-dev/. -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
