Re: New archives for testing

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> * Raw messages and mbox files are now protected with http basic
>> authentication and a fixed password. In the old archives, the software
>> worked hard to obfuscate email addresses in the headers and such of
>> the visible email, but they were all fully visible if you clicked
>> "raw" or downloaded the mbox, making the antispam measures kind of
>> pointless. The username and password for the protection is listed in
>> the password prompt, so it shouldn't be a problem for any manual
>> navigation, but hopefully enough to keep bots out.
>
> The prompt isn't shown on all browsers, so we should stick it on the
> website somewhere too.

Ugh, that's annoying.

Do you think we can get away without putting it next to every single
link? Because I'm not sure how we can do that without making it look
like crap. But if we don't, are people likely to ever read it?

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