[olug] Fw: OLUG.PHPCONSULTING.COM

[Brian Roberson]

done - thanks for stating the obvious so I look dumb ;-)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Cashell" <topher at zyp.org>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Fw: OLUG.PHPCONSULTING.COM


> At Thu, 18 Sep 03, Unidentified Flying Banana Brian Roberson, said:
> > regarding the mailman option "obscure_address"  --- IT ONLY WORKS ON THE
> > MAILMAN GENERATED VIEW - honestly guys, noone takes into acount that
when
> > you create a public archive - yes mailman obscures the address's....
> > BUT...... there is another way to get to that archives - that is to look
at
> > the public .mbx file in entirety.... WHICH CONTAINS EVERY MESSAGE
> > UN-MODIFIED...
>
> Why not make the mbox download unavailable?  All you need to do is make
> the file non-readable to the webserver.  I've seen this used by other
> projects using Mailman who wish to have public mailing list archives,
> but for the same reasons you've mentioned, don't want to allow spammers
> to crawl through the un-mangled mail archive.
>
> The Samba project is a good example.  They keep their mailing lists
> archived, but if you try to download the samba.mbox raw archive, you'll
> get a 403, access forbidden, because that file is restricted.
>
> -- 
> | Christopher
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