To answer the couple of messages that echoed the same sentiment... On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:50:14AM -0500, Earl Hood wrote: > > This kind of feature could be abused since it would require that > you specify which email address to send a copy of the message to, Right. I should have mentioned that I did realize this. There are a couple of ways to prevent abuse... > and a malicious user could choose arbitrary addresses to submit. This could happen, yes, without mechanisms to prevent it. > The <http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/> archives (and any that > use mharc) have an Original link that downloads the original raw message. Hmmmm. An interesting approach could be to configure one's browser to fire up the MUA (or open a window on an already running MUA) and open the downloaded content when downloading something of content type "message/rfc822". Of course, the webserver sending the message would have to send it with the appropriate mime-type. > For the MUA I use, nmh, it is trivial to import the data into my inbox > so I can manipulate it like any other message. However, for other MUAs, > importing the dowloaded raw message may be more difficult. Shouldn't be too difficult with mutt or even perhaps Evolution. I do like this idea a bit more than "bounce the message to: ". But to finish my thought on my original idea... > I like your idea, but unfortunately, I do not see a way to prevent > if from being abused. Two different ways, or a combination of them if one wished. One would be to rate limit the number of messages a given IP in a given time window can have bounced. Not fool-proof by any means. The second is to limit bouncing messages to list-subscribed addresses only. This one is fool-proof (well as fool-proof as DoS-preventing any mailing list in the first place) but requires more hoops to simply get a message to respond to. > Note, some do use mailto: links, but it is limited if you desire > to have access to the entire message body. Right. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
Attachment:
pgp00002.pgp
Description: PGP signature