Re: crippling mail archives

[Walter Ian Kaye <]

At 03:46p +0200 06/20/2002, Mally Mclane didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> The NCC is currently evaluating a new mail system, from the mta right
> through to the maillist manager. The 3 choices we are looking at are:
>
> * mailman
> * ecartis
> * sympa
>
> All can offer archives without crippling, but that's what this email is
> about - do people actually want us to cripple the archives?
Would it be enough to place uncrippled archives behind a <FORM METHOD=post>?
Assuming link-crawling, would that thwart the spambots?

-Walter