Ken Jones wrote:
I have been the moderator for a Mailman list running on FreeBSD for a few years.
This afternoon I received an email from a list member informing me that any and all of the emails that have transpired are available for the public to see via altavista or google. All that is needed is a couple of key words that are in the mail text.
Here is an example of what is available. Go to google and type in as key words, ["Where we live" Mahood Geneseo]
The following appears. <www.employees.org/pipermail/york_fifty_two/2004-September/000253.html>
If you go there and click on [Messages sorted by [Thread]] you get a complete archive. I had never heard of pipermail 0.09. Do you all know what it is, how it works and how to disable it?
Ken Jones
If you administer the list via the mailman web interface, on the "Archival Options" page. Turn the "Is archive file source for public or private archival?" to private. Rob M