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Subject: Re: protecting archives from harvesters (was test messages)
From: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier @ ripco . com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:05:53 -0500 (CDT)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <200105281957.f4SJvXh04300@plaidworks.com> from "Chuq Von Rospach" at May 28, 2001 01:05:29 PM

Thus spake Von Rospach:

| Why all my archives are now behind passwords. It stops the robots and
| spam harvester bots, and to be blunt about it, if a person wants to
| manually harvest my list, I can't stop him -- but I simply don't see any
| of that, and I do see the machines trying.

I've only one list archived, and it, too, is behind a password.  Nobody ever
writes to me for the password (I announced it in my farewell letter as the
list closed), but I don't know whether that's because people remember it or
because nobody goes to the archives.  (Long story, but there's no hit counter
there and there won't be one.)

So, Chuq, may I ask: do you get a lot of "What's the archive password?" re-
quests from list members or others with legitimate rights to visit them?




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