[albatross-users] Re: masking email addresses in archives / do not let archives be crawled

[Andrew McNamara]

>i just found that a) the list is indexed by google and that b) email
>addresses appear unmasked in the archives. as this is quite spam-prone,
>and as i don't like to be spammed, i would really like to ask you to
>
>a) mask email addresses in archives so that they cannot be automatically
>extracted. this is easily done by setting ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS =
>1 in mm_cfg.py [1]
>
>and / or
>
>b) do not let robots crawl the archives. if this is done to make them
>searchable - there are external search tools and internal patches that
>are easy to apply available [2]

Thanks for picking this up, and sorry about the inconvenience - I've
implemented option A (searching the archives is generally useful)
and rebuilt the archives.

-- 
Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/