I would suggest that a naïve/novice net user will be more familiar with web-based forms and web-based email than the email we know.
As I see it there are two issues here: The first is to enable users to engage list admins and have their problems sorted out, while discouraging or eliminating spam being sent to list admins. For this functionality, a web-based email form can be created. If you don’t know the admins email address, you use the form to initiate your conversation. The second issue is to prevent the email addresses of list members from being harvested from the archives. I think that using rendered images and/or javascript can help here. In implementation, as the archive is being rendered out, one would scan for email addresses, rendering image files whose names are hashes of the email address, and replace the email address with an <img src="hash"> tag. In this way, there would be no '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to sift for. The <img src="hash(email_address)"> approach can also be used for admin's email addresses on any page of the site. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chuq Von Rospach Sent: Monday, 18 February 2002 13:47 To: Jay R. Ashworth; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses... On 2/18/02 10:37 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll have to forgive me, but this sort of 'too-clever by all' > solution gives me hives. And you have to be wary of solutions that make it tough for the naïve/novice net user to figure out what needs to be done. Those of us who geek tend to forget those that don't. And Mailman can't create systems non-geeks can't figure out, even if your preferred audience is geeks. -- Chuq Von Rospach ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/) Will Geek for hardware. The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
