>However, if I want to reply to a post from the archive, a grey button can >be used at the bottom of the page containing the post in question. Fine. >When I click this grey button, however, Emailer opens (my internet config >mail client of choice) and creates as many new messages windows as it can >stuff in my computer screen, all addressed to the email address of the >person whose name was used to post on emailer-talk. I wonder: > >Why twenty messages when one is enough ?
I just tried it, and I only got one new message window. So it sounds like something is going screwy on your system. (or maybe a bug on the one web page message you were viewing) >It it intentional to let the address appear ther (then it is no longer >hidden) ? Its intentional to hide the address on the web page to keep it from being harvested by spammers. The button sends a mailto URL link to you so it trips your system settings to create a new email addressed to the person. Obviously at this point the email address has to be revealed as there is no way to still hide it on your mail client AND make it deliverable. Although, I am NOT impressed with their "security". If you look at the page source, the email address of the person can be determined from the HTML form code for that button. They have plan text fields in the source that contains the username and domain, and are even LABELED as such. So all a harvester has to do is pull those two hidden fields and insert an "@" between the values and they have the address. Not very good security, but then, most spammers are lazy so writing a harvester that will do that work is beyond what many of them are willing to do. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
