Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread Paul
It helps to disallow but the site is allowing. So possible some engines will bot the whole site: http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt On Mon, September 8, 2008 8:25 am, David Beaumont wrote: > We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not > sent > via mailman). All o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread David Beaumont
gt; Cc: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses > for spam from archives > > It helps to disallow but the site is allowing. So possible > some engines > will bot the whole site: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt &g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Christensen
At 6:13 PM +0100 9/8/08, David Beaumont wrote: > >I notice this list's archives are not standard >mailman format! I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way are the archives "not standard"? Thanks I mean the archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40pyth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread Brad Knowles
David Beaumont wrote: I notice this list's archives are not standard mailman format! I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way are the archives "not standard"? Thanks I mean the archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ We don't run those. Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread David Beaumont
> >I notice this list's archives are not standard > >mailman format! > > > I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way > are the archives "not standard"? Thanks I mean the archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Ours are at http://lists.shire.net/p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Beaumont wrote: >We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not sent >via mailman). All of them have subject headings taken from list emails >already sent out genuinely via mailman. Almost all have our specific list >prefix (but interesting not every one). > >Has an

[Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread David Beaumont
We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not sent via mailman). All of them have subject headings taken from list emails already sent out genuinely via mailman. Almost all have our specific list prefix (but interesting not every one). Has anyone else had this recently (