On August 5, 2005 at 03:24, saf wrote:
when I start mhonarc in spammode it will create me email addresses with
hidden email addresses.
Could it be possible to put the modified content in a kind of diff file
per archive?
So I could for example restore the original message with an image unlock
code, so spammer could
not get the real email address. :-)
This topic has been discussed in the past, with some bringing up
the issue that images would prevent those with disabilities (i.e.
vision impaired) to use it (this may be a legal issue for some
entities, not sure how accessibility affects web sites in general).
Note, mail-archive.com uses a POST form to return a mailto link
to facilitate reply capability. This appears to be sufficient
to defeat address harvesters, but it they wise-up...
Regardless, an idea I had was to create an MD5 hash of the address,
and use that as the key to lookup the original address (via a
CGI program). For example:
/cgi-bin/get_address.cgi?m=a3deeb9262d13a9165a80298ad831ad6
Of course, the hash is stored in some database that maps MD5
hash to real address.
Where xxxx.xxx is a link to a cgi-bin script which ask for a code written
on a image to unlock the message to get
the original email adresses. So if the user types for example the right
code, then the script reads
a kind of diff file to rebuild the original message. In the diff file
there should be written a line as like:
msg00007.html: l 30 - Write me a message to <a
href="cgi-bin/unlock_mail.cgi>foo(_at_)xxxxxx(_dot_)xxx</a>
+ Write me a message to foo(_at_)bar(_dot_)com
I'm not sure re-rendering the page with the real addresses are
needed.
Are you trying to do this for all email addresses that appear in a
message, or just for the "from" address?
--ewh
