Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:55:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So the best thing is keep your address off the radar, like > Derek's managed to do. It's a very effective strategy, but it's a bit difficult to maintain. If you have friends or relatives who are not security savvy, and use Micr

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread bmcculley
>From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Create a little gif or jpg image that displays your email >> >address. >> Won't work as "mailto:"; link > >Sure it will. But you shouldn't use it anyway, because the >scanning bots will surely look for mailto: links. > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:57:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Create a little gif or jpg image that displays your email > address. > > > > Won't work as "mailto:"; link Sure it will. But you shouldn't use it anyway, because the scanning bots will surely look for mailto: links. ma

Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Bill Freeman
Check out the contact page off of my web site: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/ke1g/emform.html It's a form that invokes a cgi program (provided by my ISP, but I'm sure that you can do something similar) that allows me, among other things, to send myself an email containing the data

Re: where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:57, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > 1: I wouldn't be surprised if spammers strip out "+detail" from their >list of email addresses, either to be more annoying or else to >increase the size of their "unique email list". > I know of at least one marketing company that does

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > Now, I've heard of bots similar to what search engines use that crawl > the web and scour for email addresses on web sites. It sounds very > reasonable of a tactic and if it doesn't actually happen now I'm sure it > will very soon. I have also heard

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Dan Coutu
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:27, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > I want to provide my email address so that visitors that do not > already know the login info can drop me a line to request it (giving > me the chance to be sure I know who is getting it). I can see two options for you. Before I dive in let me

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread bmcculley
> >Create a little gif or jpg image that displays your email address. > Won't work as "mailto:"; link (and might be too complicated for those who *really* *need* a simple point and click interface!) Question, would a form entry be an acceptable alternative? It's what came to mind for me first.

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Marc Nozell writes: > Create a little gif or jpg image that displays your email address. The downside of this scheme is that it makes the site inaccessable to those who are visually impared. Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!k

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Marc Nozell
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > Now, I've heard of bots similar to what search engines use that crawl > the web and scour for email addresses on web sites. Create a little gif or jpg image that displays your email address. -marc -- Marc Nozell <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
Title: Can this be protected? I am putting up some web sites, primarily for personal use.  Some parts of the site require a user to login and so I have no problem with posting semi-private info in there. However, on the "front page" I want to provide my email address so that visitors that do

Re: where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Macdonald writes: > It is most annoying when sign up forms > don't allow + as I use it as a way to tag my address with a vendor's > name (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Palm). If mail comes from somewhere besides > the vendor - well, then you know he sold your address. Two comments: 1: I wouldn'

RE: biometrics and nanotechnology

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Sh
Hi Peter, Thanks for the link! That is interesting... Mike -- - Original Message - DATE: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:58:10 From: "Peter Finlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: >There was a small article in EE Times, I think, (

Re: where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:02, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:55:20AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > =>Does anyone have any more specific information than that? > > > > AFAIK it's not a thingy that was slipped in. It really is a standard part > > of the email addressing scheme. I

Re: where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:55:20AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > =>Does anyone have any more specific information than that? > > AFAIK it's not a thingy that was slipped in. It really is a standard part > of the email addressing scheme. It's possible to disable it but why would > you? No, I'm p

Re: where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Mar 25th 2004 at 10:23 -0500, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: => =>I'm looking for the definingin moment in history where someone =>realized/thought/came up with the idea that allowing 'user+detail' =>in e-mail addresses was a good idea. => =>Someone mentioned they first saw it in relation

where does +detail come from?

2004-03-25 Thread p . lussier
I'm looking for the definingin moment in history where someone realized/thought/came up with the idea that allowing 'user+detail' in e-mail addresses was a good idea. Someone mentioned they first saw it in relation to CMU addresses in the early '80s, which makes me think it came from Andrew Mail

Re: biometrics and nanotechnology

2004-03-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, at 7:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to help my daughter research a paper on biometrics and > nanotechnology in relation to homeland security...and possible civil right > infringements... http://www.google.com/search?q=biometrics+homeland+security http://www.google.co

RE: biometrics and nanotechnology

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Finlay
There was a small article in EE Times, I think, (in the last year) that described military uses. It described dusting an advanced area or perimeter with a hierarchy of: Lots of pressure and heat sensors that relay to less number of accumulators that relay to alarm transmitters. http://www.eetimes