Re: This mailing list on a blog

[Tara Kelly <tarak () sullof com>]

Hello,
Sure, I realize that the archives are published in the site, an that the 
list is fairly wide open. I knew that before signing up, so no problem 
there. But being scraped and posted on a blog gets the posts indexed in 
technorati - which is read by the blogosphere at large, not just by the 
security focus community and people interested in security (as would be 
the case if it were accessible only via the archives page).

That's also a pretty shady site (did you look at the homepage - not just 
the blog?) , which gets all of our names and email addresses indexed as 
related to a splog in various search engines. Here's to hoping that has 
no serious side effects.

:) Yes, even the this discussion is ending up on there too. No way to 
avoid that.

Regardless, I think that password protecting the archives would at least 
put a mini (ok, *very* mini) obstacle between the mailinglist and 
automatic scraping/posting. But it would be better than nothing.

Cheers,
Tara

David Harley ha scritto:
> > Does everyone here know that this list is being scraped from 
> > the securityfocus.com archive and published on this blog:
> >
> > http://lists.mi6.in/security-basics/
> >     
>
> So it is. Including the post I'm quoting. :)
>
>   
> > Any ideas?
> >     
>
> Well, since there are virtually no restrictions on the list anyway, it's
> probably not a big deal. I suppose Symantec might find it irritating. 
>
> Obviously, you wouldn't say anything you wanted to keep private here in any
> case. Well, I wouldn't.  
>
>