Re: [lagoon007@localhost: How are you?]

• To: Anders Andersson < >
• From: Aumont < >
• Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:23:04 +0100
• Organization: Comite Reseaux des Universites

Anders Andersson wrote:
> 
> torben fjerdingstad unitfj-as@localhost wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:51:54AM -0700, nathan@localhost wrote:
> >> Sort of ironic for an ANTI-spam mailing list to put its members' email
> >> addresses on the web...
> >
> >Will somebody please cripple the email addresses, accessible under
> >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/anti-spam-wg ?
> 
> For the record, while I support Torben's wish to have the e-mail
> addresses crippled in the public archive, I consider it a bad
> solution in the long term, as it also means giving in (sort of)
> to the spammers view: "If you don't want our spam, get the hell
> off the Internet and out of our sight!"

That's why the mailing list manager named Sympa do not show archives
unless a cookie is sent by the client. Currently email sniffers do not
accept cookies ;-). This is a effective protection.

You can have a look to a exemple :
http://listes.cru.fr/wws/arc/sympa-users 

Sympa (http://www.sympa.org) is compatible with qmail which seems to be
used by Ripe and it is GPL. 

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