Thanks for your reply !
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Have you considered masking e-mail addresses on the public > > web archives so that spam robots won't pick them up ? > > Yes, we have considered it but haven't yet found a way that will please > most. One benefit of the archives is that people can write mails to the > list or sender in a helpful way. > > For instance, my work e-mail address made it into this page: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-m68k-changes/2001/debian-devel-m68k-changes-200106/msg00387.html > > Funny, I didn't know that the -changes lists are archived, too... Yes, I was mailing privately to a maintainer, I would never use this address on a mailing list or bug database... Gotta be careful :) > > and I am afraid I receive spam because of this. > > You might be right. Some lists are even archived on different places, > like in usenet groups (linux.debian.devel e.g., which is reachable > through web (gmame, google groups) too), so changing them on our > webarchive only doesn't change much. But like I said, there are > discussions going on how to "mask" the addresses so they are still > usable for people reading the archive and meaning not too much problem > for them, and on the other hand let the spambots not have it so easy to > crawl them. > > If you know a good way (substituding @ to (at) and . to (dot) or > similar is no good way: It hurts the people using the archive but can > easily automated by spamcrawlers) please let us know. Actually, to code in html like this seems to help a lot: volden@iqe. phyt.ethz.ch People can then still use cut'n'paste to get the e-mail address, but the robots doesn't pick it up (so far). One might also insert other non- displayed html-tags between the letters that will confuse the mean robots. Best regards, Tormod Volden
