Re: Search Archives! Help Full
Re: Search Archives! Help Full
- Subject: Re: Search Archives! Help Full
- From: Kevin Gogerty <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:44:21 -0600
Just an update to all...
I have set a password protected realm on my server. Trying to abide by the
rules. So not to worry about spam, I hate it as much as you. So I will
take everything in consideration in protecting you email addresses.
Thanks again,
Kevin
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From: has <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 19:38:06 +0000
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To: "Kevin Gogerty" <email@hidden>, email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Search Archives! Help Full
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Chuq von Rospach wrote:
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> On 11/1/01 5:24 AM, "Kevin Gogerty" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Check it out at....
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>> http://www.tbl2000.com/applescript
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>> I think I have taken some good steps on keeping your email addresses away
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>> from the "Spammers" but NO system is perfect.
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> It's not good enough -- you can easily get email addresses out of it,
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> especially AOL addresses. You're exposing list members to the spam harvest
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> bots.
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> A) make sure it doesn't make email addresses available
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> B) password protect it from the bots
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> Or
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> C) shut it down. The way it's set up isn't acceptable.
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> Sorry.
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> Chuq
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Kevin, I realise you're trying to do a Good Thing here, but posting folks
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addresses online like that is a no-no. I'd certainly appreciate it if you
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followed Chuq's A or B asap**. My webmail account (i.e. the disposable
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account I use when I want to post an email address online) is already
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plenty full of Make Money Fast and Hot XXX Action, thanks to those lousy
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bots (I'll be dumping it shortly). I wouldn't like my lovingly-guarded and
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much-cherished POP mailbox getting similarly stuffed up, however.
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Regards,
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has
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(**I'm assuming that by A, Chuq means stripping all valid-looking addresses
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from message bodies as well as headers.)