At 8:52 AM -0800 2/4/98, Manar Hussain wrote:
> Only if they obey it. If spammer run their own bots this is hardly likely
> to be the case.
If a spammer is sophisticated and motivated enough to search out
archives and custom-surf them, then you can't stop them from harvesting
addresses. They'll just subscribe to the list and harvest from it
directly.
Protecting your archives is a good thing. Protecting them more than you
can protect the list itself is wasted energy.
The reality is, if someone targets your list, all you can do is slow
them down. Unless, of course, they're incompetent, which many of these
slime are. But the good ones? They'll win. Fortunately, it's a lot
easier to just harvest the global archives and not have to write the
code to harvest lists individually (and find them, and....) -- so the
trick is to not make your data available where they're harvesting.
--
Chuq Von Rospach (Hockey fan? <http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/>)
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq@apple.com)
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