Glenn Linderman on wrote...
| Instead of providing mailto: links, or displaying email addresses, it
| would be better to provide a contact member form, so that members could
| be contacted via the form, and the form internally translates that to an
| email to the member.
|
| Be careful not to expose the member email addresses as "hidden" input
| forms; some early contact forms were not particularly secure. The email
| addresses should all be embedded in code (or database accesses) inside
| the CGI script, not placed in .html files in any form.
|
| Many contact form templates only support one person.
|
| I have a Perl solution (but you mention PHP) that can support multiple
| users, and could be hacked to do database lookups instead of embedded
| email addresses.
|
| For this sort of solution, you don't need ImageMagick, so replies along
| this line are probably OT for this list; I'll try to respond
| individually today to additional questions if you have them, while the
| context is still in my head. I only monitor this email address
| sporadically, so days may go by without response, but I will be
| monitoring it today and probably tomorrow, after that, who knows?
|
Hiding information as a form of security has never been a good practice.
Whether it be though images, or just not handing out the information
directory or indirectly.
A good spam filter still seems to be the better solution.
I have about 13 email addresses (for various reasons) some now 15 years
old, and very well known. all forward to my normal mail address.
I am probably on every spam list, and even get spam in chinese, german,
and russian! Viruses do not effect me as I use linux.
I use a 3 level spam filter that filters out 90% of the spam,
hmm in the last 24 hours the university wide filter took out
32 emails, spam assain took out 10, and a personal filter (over 300
line patterns) took out 28 more. leaving about 70 new emails in my mail
box. 30 of these were program reports 20 un-dectected spams and 20 or
so actual emails. to read or respond to.
I scan the spam, then delete. Only a few spammers I have my filter
delete outright. I get few false spams, but not many. More un-detected.
I really have no trouble with them, other than adding a few extra rules
to my personal spam filter (a large procmail script).
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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