Continuing old thread... I decided to look at the way www.mail-archive.com stores our email addresses when archiving accmail postings. As you can see from below-mentioned piece of HTML code, the page contains no mailto links. (thanks to this, mail-archive pages should not attract the silly email-harvesting-bots' attention. Of course, sophisticated bots can be cofigured to harvest anything.) The real email address is being composed on the fly by Nomailto.pl script concatenating USER and HOST variables. See the form:
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/Nomailto.pl"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="user" VALUE="gboyd"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="host" VALUE="expita.com"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="subject" VALUE="Re: more about weather by email"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="msgid" VALUE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Reply via email to<br> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Gerald E. Boyd "> </FORM> -- Eugeny ----------- :-) ---------------- The call to Tech support... Q: I see nothing on the screen! A: Turn on your monitor. Q: Already on. A: So, turn on your computer! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
