Ian: > Bruce: > > Chris says that all of the mailing lists are gatewayed one-way only, > > and there is no mention of the list address in the headers. Thus, he > > thinks that the people who are finding our list by mistake are doing > > it through some other means. Does this mean that they are finding it > > through our own WWW archives of the mailing lists? Do we need to add > > something there to keep them from being indexed? > > That's quite possible, and we should do something about it. However, > I still feel that we should shut down general USENET gateways of our > development lists. > > [...]
E.g. HotBot, which is what I got with clicking menu: directory/internet search in Netscape 3.03 for NT gives, when searched with Dale Scheetz 5434 matches of the form: http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9702/msg00119.html, 3468 bytes, 04Apr97 t.aa -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .