Re: spam-proofing my mhonarc archive

["Wade Van Buskirk" <wade@psmfc.org>]

What's the bigger annoyance, spam, typing a username or editing the 
email address? What is your favorate solution then? Did you get your cgi 
to work without sending the email address of the recipient? You should 
just send the message # and your cgi can pick the email address out of a 
table.

Mark Stosberg wrote:

> > Got something for javascript?  How about:
> > Dodge TownWagon list archive (user name = dodge & pass word = townie)
> > Http://www.psmfc.org/~wade/dodge/list
> >    
> I think you can also simplify the JavaScript out of the solution by
> encoding the username and password into the name displayed in the
> .htaccess pop-up window. This should also make it even easier for the
> users to "guess" the password. Maybe something like this .htaccess file
> example:
>
> AuthUserFile /home/admin/.htpasswd
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Welcome! use username 'foo' and password 'bar' "
> <Limit GET>
> require valid-user
> </Limit>
>
> ####
>
> Perhaps it's even possible to for .htaccess to just require a username
> without a password?
>
> Still, this solution is not my favorite because it has the potential to
> annoy or confuse users who don't understand about e-mail address
> harvesting.
>
>  Mark
>
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