Well, I would throttle the usage for one. After a certain amount of uses, a captcha will be presented. And throttling would stop any attempts by something that was scripting against it.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > Any time you create any "email feature", you must immediately look at it > through the eyes of a spammer. > Could someone create a shortened URL to their (already blacklisted) domain, > and then write a script that somehow uses your email feature to (re-create > it and) notify just a few million people about it? > Probably not, but with great power comes a great responsibility, blah > blah... > Al Holden > > > On 4/5/2010 9:42 AM, Jason King wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> I added a feature so that after you create a shortened URL, you are given >> the option to input your email address and have the details of the redirect >> sent to your email. >> > > -- > Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List > http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !! > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
