Spam robots and browser history problems...

From: <HyperMail_www_at_associate.com_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: 12 May 1999 02:49:07 -0000
Message-ID: <19990512024907.19755.qmail_at_associate.com>

Two HyperMail issues - one is a re-request...

1. HyperMail leaves e-mail addresses out in the open where spam robots can harvest addresses. Can we at least have an option in the RC file that lets us specify the user/domain separator from "_at_" to some other string?

I was just reading about the E-mail protector script at http://www.siteware.ch/webresources/scripts/perl/emp.html and wishing for a better method for HyperMail. I currently use Basic Authorization to block robots, but the readers hate it.

2. I purge mailing list messages to my HyperMail listings DAILY. When a reader comes back on day 2 to read new messages, their browser says and thinks that 0001.html (etc etc) have already been read because the file names are not date-specific. Can we PLEASE switch HyperMail to use of a time stamp in the file name? Something a wildcard delete can handle, like 0001-05111999224500.html ???

Many thanks,

Glen_Stewart_at_associate.com Received on Wed 12 May 1999 04:46:57 AM GMT