It's just a means of abstraction. Text file, XML, db table, whatever. It's
just a nice idea to maintain it outside of the application because then it
is more reusable.

-Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters

> I know that, but how is it any easier to update?
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Samuel Neff
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:06 PM
>   Subject: RE: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters
>
>
>   hmm... a text file is just a list of IP's.  A cfm file is executable
>   programming code.
>
>   Sam
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Daniel Farmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:51 PM
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Subject: Re: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters
>
>   How is a text file any easier to update than an application.cfm file?
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Samuel Neff
>     To: CF-Talk
>     Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:47 PM
>     Subject: RE: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters
>
>     You can do it in your application.cfm file.  I did this on our blog
>   recently
>     to block blog spammers.  Just create a structure that has the blocked
IP's
>     in it (can cache in application scope if it's a big structure) and on
each
>     request check if structKeyExists(badIps, cgi.remote_addr) and if so
abort.
>     Can get fancy and read the list from a text file to make it easy to
>   update.
>
>     HTH,
>
>     Sam
>
>
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