Netscrap 4.78 oops sorry mispelled that one.. Netscape :) I do loads of html and I hate Netscape with a passion, I think 6.2 renders pages like IE4, but I'm not even sure, and only .2% of websurfer use it. www.technodium.net/kira/kira.htm check this out with IE = perfect.. chek it out with NS, different for every version, even if all the tags are ok
As for email spamming, you are right, since it's taken from a database. Unless the archive was called e-may, I think we might not have to protect the emails beyond leaving them outside of static webpages:-) Etienne Robert Alexander wrote: > > At 09:33 -0500 2001/12/17, Etienne Marcotte wrote: > >This is a very very good search engine for the mailing list!!! Great > >work > > Thank you! > > >Two things: > > >2- Put the "Any Date" checked by default so we don'T have to always > >click it:-) (I'm lazzzzy) You could add some javascript so that the > >range is celected when something is entered in the from or to fields > > Second one first: "Any Date" is already checked by default. What > browser/OS are you using? > > >1- Is it possible to remove our full email adresses? > > To put like emarcott@... or emarcott at itl dot ca (like the > >mysqldeveloper archive. > > > > > >my 2 cents > > > >#2 is not a big thing, but #1 is pretty important against spam and spam > >bots. > > > >Etienne > > A valid concern, Etienne, and one that's very important to me, too. > Word's fail me in describing how much I detest spam -- well, at least > polite ones do. :-/ > > I believe our information is safe in this case, though. Let me explain why: > > To the best of my knowledge, Email harvesting 'bots (spambots) use > technology similar to that used by the big web search engines. Those > companies, like Google, Yahoo, etc., run two main pieces of software; > one (a 'spider') that continually accesses all the sites on the web > -- well, they hope it's all of them -- and stores information about, > or a complete copy of, each page they find. These pages are stored > in their database on their big, fire-breathing computers (it's a > staggering amount of data) and that's what the _other_ piece of > software, the search engine, looks through when you do a search. > > The spambots do basically the same thing -- they gather up web pages. > They, however, simply extract anything that looks like an email > address. These lower-than-pond-scum then add that to their database > (350 MILLION TARGETTED EMAIL ADDRSSES FOR ONLY $399.00!) and lie that > you 'opted-in' or 'expressed an interest.' > > Fortunately, search engine page gatherers and spambots can access > only 'static' html pages that exist on a server and can be searched. > The pages you see when you search the email archive are safe from > 'bots because they don't even _exist_ until you ask for them -- > they're generated on-the-fly, on demand, and they're sent directly to > your computer. > > The content of the archive is visible only to the person doing the > search. So, it's a 99% solution. There's still the chance that an > unscrupulous person could go to the effort of doing an archive search > in the hopes of getting some email addresses to spam, but that's > simply not their style; that's too much like legitimate work. > Pirating email addresses is 'profitable' (I guess) if they let a > computer do all the work; it's not if a person has to write them down > or type them in. > > There are places that DO put the contents of mailing lists up on the > web on static, searchable pages. You should be aware of them so you > can make better-informed decisions, and thereby have more control > over where your address appears. One site with the MySQL list is > http://dbforums.com/f114/. Or try, for example, > http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users@perl.org/msg06361.html > > For an interesting exercise, you should try going to www.google.com, > or your favourite search engine, and doing a web search on your email > address and/or your phone number. The hits you get on that search are > the prime places where spambots are getting your email address from. > > I truly believe we're safe, though I'd love to hear more comments. > > All the best, > /Rob > > -- > Robert Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 416-823-6599 > http://www.workmate.ca WWW Database Applications and Web Hosting > > Searchable MySQL List Archive: http://archive.workmate.ca/myarchive -- Etienne Marcotte Specifications Management - Quality Control Imperial Tobacco Ltd. - Montreal (Qc) Canada 514.932.6161 x.4001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
