Re: Mailing list archives

From: Yash Maudhoo <yashmaudhoo_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:14:09 +0400

Hi SM


> On Dec 19, 2015, at 10:43 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>
> 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

What about using robots.txt to restrict bots
(Except search engine bots)from crawling the archive?

Regards,
Yash
Received on Sat Dec 19 2015 - 19:14:26 PST