Hi all,

It's a constant battle against the spambots. We do a lot of
anti-spambot stuff already, but there are a lot of spam miscreants out
there. Now that MHonArc 2.6 is out I will probably switch to (succumb
to?) completely censoring the email addresses appearing in message
bodies, i.e. replace them with something like [EMAIL PROTECTED].  I'll
probably give the new MHonArc a few more weeks to cut its teeth in the
wild before switching over.
-Jeff

PS. It sucks to live in a world where such steps are necessary.
    Spam continues to be on the short list of things that threaten
    Mail-Archive's long term survival.

>As an aside, I have noticed also that spammers go through the archives
>looking for e-mail addresses.   A lot of listserves put a footer on the
>messages saying to send a blank message  to some generated address in
>order to unsubscribe.  So the spammer sends a message to that address,
>and some poor befuddled listserve subscriber finds himself unsubscribed!
>This really isn't Mail Archive's problem;  the only solution for that is
>for listserves to eliminate that footer message or give alternate
>instructions for unsubscribing.

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