Re: RPM documentation gripes

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > why is the list /archive/ restricted to members only?

BTW *I* didn't write that...

> 
> Probably because of (valid) concerns about spammers
> harvesting email addresses from the archives.
> 
> Many lists I know of are starting to close off the
> achives to outsiders because of this.
> 
> Perforce-users is taking an inbetween approach:
> they put the username and password right into the
> prompt that your web browser gives you.
> That foils automated harvesters without being too hard.

Sure. I personally wouldn't have objections to closed archives, 
IF the closed archive would include a powerful search engine...

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