That's an even better idea, precisely why I wanted to ask your opinions on this subject. Thanks.. I think I will wait to re-email that archive list until I have a lot of great ideas we could combine to get one great idea. Thanks a lot for your input!
Rick "A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special" - Nelson Mandela > From: Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Gremlins Associates > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:26:38 +0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Email harvesters > > On Monday 20 May 2002 15:46, Richard Baskett wrote: >> I wrote this email to the php Archive list and I would like to get your >> opinions on it.. Thanks! :) >> >> "Is there any way that we could get the archives password protected? Apple >> does a nice thing where they tell you the username and password to login >> and the whole purpose of it is so that email harvesters can not go through >> and.. Well.. Harvest our emails from the list :) I think a lot of people >> would not mind having something like this added to the pages since my guess >> is that we're all sick and tired of spam and junkmail and eliminating one >> possible garden for harvesters would be nice :) I am going to email this >> to the list also to see what kind of feedback comes from it." > > If they're password protected then how would search engines like google crawl > through the archives? The best thing that could be done is hide (remove) the > email addresses when the posts are placed in the archive -- something like > what geocrawler does. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > > /* > Green's Law of Debate: > Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about. > */ > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
