SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)

[Craig Ringer]

>>It's actually usually not difficult to make a
>>website "subscribers only - except google". I see a
>>fair number of things that allow google free access,
>>but make normal users (not from their domain with
>>their user-agent) use a registration mechanism.
> 
> True, but for our purposes what's to stop the spammers
> harvesting it via the Google cache? (Aside from the
> level of intelligence required, of course.)

Little other than the pain of doing it. It is normally coupled with 
email address obfuscation for that reason. I'm just trying to point out 
that making list access private to members need not lock out google, and 
that it will stop /direct/ collection of addresses if done.

Craig Ringer