Posted by Richard Davey on 03/01/05 18:22

Hello bob,

Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:11:47 PM, you wrote:

b> I am most surprised that a list like this would be so open to
b> Spiders and other creepie crawlies. Other PHP mailing lists are
b> fine, why can't the original and best one be one of them ?

I can't see how any list at all that displays the authors email
address as the From: address could ever protect you from spam of any
kind. Sure you can munge the email addresses on the archives, but you
can't stop a bot from subscribing or monitoring the usenet gateway.

Best regards,

Richard Davey
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http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services
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