On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:21, Bruno Postle wrote: > I've been made-aware that as well as indexing pipermail public html > archives, google indexes all the raw mbox files too: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=pipermail+mbox+X-Mailman-Version > > These are also a resource for email-address harvesters, so I've > configured apache to redirect these requests to the private > archives: > > RedirectMatch permanent ^/pipermail/(.+)\.mbox/(.+)\.mbox$ > http://example.com/mailman/private/$1.mbox/$2.mbox > > Can anyone see anything wrong with this approach? > > ..or should mailman be modified to allow only authenticated user > access to the mbox archives?
I like your way of doing it. That should work fine. I run a script against my mbox file nightly (and the html pages) which scans for specific email addresses and substitutes a specific replacement for that email address - all this provided by users who don't want their addresses showing up in the archives. It was a nice add-on feature and easy to do. The names and substitutions are stored in a simple database; the script is a simple "for... done" that executes a sed statement for the substitutions. Since I run it nightly, it's pretty fast. It would also be fairly easy to add this to the Pipermail archiver. On some of my lists I run Pipermail, on others I run Mhonarc, so I haven't bothered to integrate it. Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
