> At 01:48 AM 3/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >A quick google check showed that the email addresses are available on the
> >archives, ripe for harvesting.
> >For example: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A1=ind0205&L=no-milk
>
> But it is not going to change. That is not a static web page that can be
> harvested with crawling software. It is a database and one can only get the
> posts by issuing a software command, which in the example above is what
> comes after the question mark. Of course if a person wants to by hand
> harvest the addresses they could.
Don,
I may misunderstand something but if it is a dynamic DB page, how come Google harvested it?
http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22alexoren.%2Bcom%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0
The best solution from my point of view would be removing/obfuscating the email addresses.
If you cannot do it, at least limit access using a robots.txt file.
Thanks,
Alex.