> From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com> > > My understanding is that The Mail Archive > > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html) will provide free storage for > > mailing lists. I think every WG list should be permanetly archived in > > this manner. > > What a great way to help address harvesters ... one site ... one 'API' to > program against to harvest many valid addresses. This particular archive > example hides email addresses, but it took me less that 5 minutes to > determine how to recover addresses from the page data. > > So I don't think the suggested policy is a good idea without much more > effective blocking of access to email addresses. Hmmmph! So only the addresses of authors of messages that are not spam or otherwise rejected by IETF and IRTF moderation should be harvested from the existing archives? It's clear that the price of admission to a public, technical anti-spam mailing list like the ASRG list should include sufficient practical knowledge of spam including enough spam defenses to obviate any worries about exposing one's address. A similar de facto policy in other IRTF and IETF lists to discourage tourists would not be a bad thing. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com