Anyone interested in harvesting addresses would simply subscribe to the various lists. There is no way to prevent this type of abuse. It is a non-issue. Only certain radical anti-spammers (and those duped by them) believe it to be problem. Coincidentally, only lists frequented by such radical antispammers seem to suffer these problems. I guess they've proven the point: Mail lists can be abused. Of course, that isn't the same point as "(Type 1) Spammers abuse mail lists". --Dean On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David Morris wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > > > 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. > > Dave Morris > > >