yes, it happens quite frequently that either we or google get scanned for e-mail addressed in the archives. not much actually nothing can be done other than not having archives. the archives are set to remove addressed from the headers, but because some people respond to digests that contain e-mail addresses in them, the archives contain many addresses and there is not much that can be done about that other than deleting a large section of the archives. even turning them to private, which I would not like to see happen, does not prevent a bot from getting to them by joining and unjoining, which good bots can do.
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