I'd love to see such an addition to mhonarc!
Regards,
Jeff Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm sick of making archive messages un-replyable and living in
> perpetual fear of spam harvesters. So, I've been reading through the
> anti-spambot guidelines at http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot. It appears
> to me that the best way to protect archival addresses from spam
> harvesting, while keeping them most usable for humans, is through a
> CGI program.
>
> The example form from their guidebook splits the email address into
> two parts, the CGI program puts them back together, and returns a
> mailto: link to the browser. The example form at
> http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/Programs/Nomailto.pl is:
>
> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/Nomailto.pl">
> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="spambot" VALUE="greg">
> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="beware" VALUE="turnstep.com">
> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send me email!">
> </FORM>
>
> Implementing this trick with MHonArc means either hacking code or post
> processing, since only the full email address is available in the
> rcfile, and there is no mechanism to mangle it. I'd like to attempt
> to patch MHonArc, because post processing large amounts of email is
> too much of a logistics headache.
>
> So the question is - any suggestions on how to best approach the
> problem? Which section of code is best to look at, and what mechanism
> is best for passing back email address fragments? (Should I try to
> define new resources, for example?)
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
