P3D archives passworded

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today I received a bit of spam which indicated that it was because
my address had appeared on a photography website (although it did not
indicate which one). 

The photo-3d (and related lists) have had the "address dump" feature
disabled to prevent this sort of thing for years, but another possible
security problem is in the archives (with some patience, it might
be possible to pull in the digests and "harvest" the e-mail addresses
that way).

So I've passworded the archives. Anyone who is registered for photo-3d
or one of the related lists can access them via their browser (assuming
you are using one where passwording works correctly). I tried to pick
something everyone could remember, so the userid is

photo-3d

and the password is

calcite

Note that these are CaSE SeNSiTIvE - you *must* enter them as shown above,
with dashes, lower case letters, and all.

I figure they should not be too hard to remember :-)  These allow access
to all of the various list archives (ie, tech-3d as well as photo-3d -
no separate login is necessary). If you've not used a passworded http
site before, don't worry about when to enter the information - it will
be blindingly clear!

This of course is hardly secure, but it should throw up a road block
against "standard" robot address harvesters.

The address to access the archives remains the same:

http://calcite.rocky.edu/photo-3d


If you have problems, drop me a line.

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   7:10 PM Saturday, May 23, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
 keeper of the Photo-3d and Overland-Trails
mailing lists and the USA GPS Waypoint server



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