It helps to disallow but the site is allowing. So possible some engines will bot the whole site:
http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt On Mon, September 8, 2008 8:25 am, David Beaumont wrote: > We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not > sent > via mailman). All of them have subject headings taken from list emails > already sent out genuinely via mailman. Almost all have our specific list > prefix (but interesting not every one). > > Has anyone else had this recently (started 3rd Sept approx and the > spammers > listed from address has 'kiev' in it)? > > I can only think of 2 ways this has happened > > 1) Our public archives have been harvested by a spammer. This would > account > for the subject headings being used. Email addresses are displayed in the > archives as, literally, 'name at domain.com' which is not immediately > harvestable but wouldn't take much code to convert ' at ' to '@'. How do > we > make this more secure? I notice this list's archives are not standard > mailman format! > > 2) One of our members PCs has been attacked and the subjects and email > addresses taken from there. All our emails are delivered with the reply > to > address being the list but the originators email showing. This would > account for a small number of the spams not having our list prefix in the > subject heading (they would not have the prefix if stored in the sent box > of > the person that created the genuine message). However I would expect at > least some members to report spam with entirely non list subjects from the > same spammer. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/opensource%40unixoses.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
