At 09:37 PM 3/17/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Jon, I always thought that the various search engines "infoseek, yahoo"
>and the like were partly responsible for this. Since the DML archives
>have all the messages in html format this might get picked up when they
>spider your site. On my site some pages that I had not submitted were
>automatically picked up by Infoseek. I think they go through your
>directory and seek out any html pages you may have there. Could this
>be what is happening also?
>
Yep, that does happen also, but in this case, this is an address
which is subscribed to the list. Mail to it gets sent to a gateway
which converts the e-mail into a Usenet post and it gets put on
a server. At that point, anyone can read the group or pull it off the
server.
-Jon-
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