At 12:50 PM +0000 2/15/03, Richard Barrett wrote:
At 11:38 15/02/2003, Paul Kleeberg wrote:I like the way that mailman changes e-mail addresses so that they cannot be automatically harvested by spammers, but I am concerned by the fact that a lists entire archive can be downloaded. I want to have an open list but I am a bit uncomfortable with allowing the entire archive to be retrieved (with intact e-mail addresses) with a single click of the mouse.I quick and simple non-patch fix is to put a rewrite rule into you web server's httpd.conf that rewrites the URI's of the files you are concerned about to a polite rejection page. That is what I've opted to do with RewriteRules like this:
Has anyone created a patch to remove the downloadable versions? Am I just being paranoid?
Paul
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RewriteRule ^(/pipermail/[^/]+)/(pipermail\.pck|htdig(|/[^/]*)|.*\.(txt|txt\.gz))$ $1/unavailable.html [R]
RewriteRule ^(/pipermail/[^/\.]+)\.mbox/ $1/unavailable.html [R]
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean people aren't picking on you.
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