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Subject: Re: protecting archives from harvesters (was test messages)
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:53:24 -0700
To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman @ imc . org>
Cc: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <p05100317b738b4aa7c08@[165.227.249.18]>


On Monday, May 28, 2001, at 07:09 PM, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> Just a thought. The idea is to stop the automatic harvesters; you can't 
> really stop the humans, they'll just join the list to get the password. 
> So you could write on the page leading to the archives "The archive is 
> password-protected, and the user name is 'foo' and the password is 
> 'bar'; we did this to reduce the chance that the archive will be 
> harvested."
>

That's pretty much what I did. I still get questions from people who 
blow past that, hit the password prompt, and then write the admin for 
help...


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