Re: Mailing list archives

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:42:17 -0800

Hi Yash,
At 10:28 19-12-2015, Yash Maudhoo wrote:
> If some of you believe that the public archive may be the source
> from where spammers are getting your email from, then I'm pretty
> sure that if we implement a captcha that needs to be solved to
> reveal email addresses, it might help to reduce spam, at least if a
> bot is crawling the archive to get a list of emails. Or even if
> it's a real person, he is not going to solve tons of captcha to get
> your emails.

A captcha can be used to make it difficult to read the mailing list
archives. A bot crawling the archive can still bypass a captcha and
access the mailing list archives. I will run an experiment to make
it difficult to read the mailing list archive.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sat Dec 19 2015 - 18:42:50 PST