[NTLUG:Discuss] why does the mail server stop working overandover

[Chris Cox]

Rev. wRy wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:17, Scott Hollomon wrote:
> 
>>I have also wondered why there is not a move to a web based forum.  Its makes 
>>the expertise of the NTLUG membership easier to get to and searchable without 
>>maintaining your own archive (my personal archive only goes back to 6-23-04 
>>and contains 4902 items).  
> 
> 
> It's already searchable:
> 
> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> 
> Notice the "NTLUG Search via Google" button.  Most of the PHP based
> forums I've had the displeasure of using have horrid built in search
> functionality.
> 

It's a pro and con.  We didn't/don't mask the emails so they get
picked up by harvesters.  I think I may have robots.txt them out
not too long ago because we were getting hit pretty hard by
some harvesters/crawlers (not that the bad folks care about
robots.txt of course).