we've been over this before, but thinking about solutions for publicly archiving a mailinglist, you might actually have to parse the archive files, filter out e-mail addresses both in headers and in the body of the message, then substitute with an ID that links back to a password protected file containing corresponding e-mail addresses.
oh i'll add it to the wishlist, as soon as we get a volunteer to do the coding for this, I'll see if we can implement it.
visitors can read the archives but only officially approved members of the list can reply. joining and unjoining by bots would not yield them anything because they'd have to first pay their membership before getting access.
air-l does not require membership or payment
of course a bot could join the list and suck up the ongoing e-mail messages, but since the posters are a relative minority on any list, this is not so very interesting I'd guess.
no, but a bot if it joins the list, then can issue the command to retreive the list of list members which is all they need. it is a pretty easy thing to do on a public list, probably about 15 lines in perl tops, though it would require a scripting and email account.
this would probably mean scripting the hell out of your archival system and not something that I would want to do... but it might be a solution.
yep, if there was time:)
Frank.
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