[Air-l] Air-L list or archive raided for e-mail addresses by spammer?!

[jeremy hunsinger]

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>we've been over this before, but thinking about solutions for publicly
>archiving a mailinglist, you might actually have to parse the archive files,
>filter out e-mail addresses both in headers and in the body of the message,
>then substitute with an ID that links back to a password protected file
>containing corresponding e-mail addresses.
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oh i'll add it to the wishlist, as soon as we get a volunteer to do the 
coding for this, I'll see if we can implement it.

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>visitors can read the archives but only officially approved members of the
>list can reply. joining and unjoining by bots would not yield them anything
>because they'd have to first pay their membership before getting access.
>
air-l does not require membership or payment

> of
>course a bot could join the list and suck up the ongoing e-mail messages, but
>since the posters are a relative minority on any list, this is not so very
>interesting I'd guess.
>
no, but a bot if it joins the list, then can issue the command to 
retreive the list of list members which is all they need.   it is a 
pretty easy thing to do on a public list, probably about 15 lines in 
perl tops, though it would require a scripting and email account.

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>
>this would probably mean scripting the hell out of your archival system and
>not something that I would want to do... but it might be a solution.
>
yep, if there was time:)

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