On August 5, 2005 at 03:24, saf wrote: > when I start mhonarc in spammode it will create me email addresses with > hidden email addresses. > Could it be possible to put the modified content in a kind of diff file > per archive? > So I could for example restore the original message with an image unlock > code, so spammer could > not get the real email address. :-)
This topic has been discussed in the past, with some bringing up the issue that images would prevent those with disabilities (i.e. vision impaired) to use it (this may be a legal issue for some entities, not sure how accessibility affects web sites in general). Note, mail-archive.com uses a POST form to return a mailto link to facilitate reply capability. This appears to be sufficient to defeat address harvesters, but it they wise-up... Regardless, an idea I had was to create an MD5 hash of the address, and use that as the key to lookup the original address (via a CGI program). For example: /cgi-bin/get_address.cgi?m=a3deeb9262d13a9165a80298ad831ad6 Of course, the hash is stored in some database that maps MD5 hash to real address. > Where xxxx.xxx is a link to a cgi-bin script which ask for a code written > on a image to unlock the message to get > the original email adresses. So if the user types for example the right > code, then the script reads > a kind of diff file to rebuild the original message. In the diff file > there should be written a line as like: > > msg00007.html: l 30 - Write me a message to <a > href="cgi-bin/unlock_mail.cgi>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> > + Write me a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure re-rendering the page with the real addresses are needed. Are you trying to do this for all email addresses that appear in a message, or just for the "from" address? --ewh
