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Subject: Re: protecting archives from harvesters (was test messages)
From: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:45:04 -0400
To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman @ imc . org>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <p05100317b738b4aa7c08@[165.227.249.18]>
References: <200105290014.f4T0EZh08125@plaidworks.com><200105290014.f4T0EZh08125@plaidworks.com>

At 07:09 PM 5/28/2001 -0700, 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."

As I said in an earlier message, I do that and people still write for the
password.
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