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[Andreas Pakulat]

On 17.07.10 20:16:56, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:51:56 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 July 2010 06:43:25 Konstantin Karganov wrote:
> > > Another question why does it need the password at all?
> > 
> > Because there are so called "spam bots". These are spider scripts that
> > collect/harvest e-mail addresses to send spam to.
> > 
> > I do not like those, therefor, only authenticated humans can browse the
> > archives.
> 
> Which, as pointed out by Andreas, makes no sense since all mails are also 
> publically available at different places.

But there the headers and IIRC also contents are being run through a
filter to make email-addresses harder to harvest. Thats something the
archive on kdevelop.org doesn't do.

Andreas

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