Spamproofing the Archives

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Dec 7 10:56:01 2002

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:

> :-) The way I had thunk it, it would need to be both unique and reversable.
> The confirm/reveal script would decode it to figure out what email address
> to show to the user. Gotta be deterministic on the decode, you see. At least
> for the first part, anyway.

No good. Someone WILL crack the code eventually and then spam away.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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