The situation could be worse. Here's the code:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/Nomailto.pl">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="user" VALUE="rhonda.bracey">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="host" VALUE="cybertext.com.au">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="subject" VALUE="Re: [TCP] Any good free web
design software for sales manual?">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="msgid"
VALUE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
Reply via email to<br>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Rhonda Bracey ">
</FORM>

Most spambots won't harvest this. If any spambot knows how this service
works, it can easily harvest the address.

>From a programming standpoint, it's a baffling decision, since they
could have used a database token instead (email use #8934561) which
would allow the same script to look up the user.

What it does is kind of neat otherwise, which is redirect to a mailto:
link.

Not speaking in defense of the company.

--- Rhonda Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Lisa et al
> 
> I don't know if this is official or not, but I just got a Google
> Alert
> for a posting I made on TCP, which is reproduced here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02418.html.
> 
> I guess of most concern is that the "Email" button at the bottom of
> the
> post opens Outlook with my address plain to see... Even though the
> body
> of the message has "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> 
> Is this an official copy, or is someone harvesting the TCP messages
> without your knowledge?
> 
> I know that Bill Swallow had a bit of a fight with something similar
> for
> HATT a few months back. Don't know if it's the same 'service' or not.
> 
> Rhonda
> 
> Rhonda Bracey 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cybertext.com.au
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