email and s p a m blocking

[Brian L. Galebach]

Well, perhaps I didn't think this through completely.  I've gotten a couple
of people trying the link now.  A possible problem with my idea is that you
can't really know who's sending you an email.  Also if someone sends you a
message, but doesn't leave their email address, there's no way to reply to
them.  Perhaps the only robust way is to have people register with user
names.  Then when a message is sent through a URL, you'd put your own
username as the "sent" person.  Then you could click on another link in the
email to reply.

Sorry for so many emails.  I'll sit here and think a while before I send
another one.

Cheers,
Brian
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Brian L. Galebach [mailto:briang at SEGmail.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:49 AM
  To: njas at research.att.com; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
  Subject: RE: email and s p a m blocking


  OK.  I set up an example.  To email me, click this link ->
http://probabilitysports.com/mail2bri.html.  Of course the site could be set
up so that you would see the user's name instead of the URL to the "send
email" page.  I would have done that in this email, but this version of
outlook's a bit inflexible.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Brian L. Galebach [mailto:briang at SEGmail.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:13 AM
  To: njas at research.att.com; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
  Subject: RE: email and s p a m blocking


  I don't like the idea of just modifying the email addresses in an obvious
  way, as some have suggested.  Just have a link for each contributer to a
  page where you can send a message.  This really isn't at all hard to do,
and
  would make all our email addresses completely secure.  Privacy is a
serious
  concern, and this issue deserves a serious solution, not a cluge.

  Brian

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Brian L. Galebach [mailto:briang at SEGmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:28 PM
  To: njas at research.att.com; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
  Subject: RE: email and s p a m blocking


  How about this:

  Perhaps instead of showing an email address, the site could have, for each
  contributer, a link to a "send email" page where a person could compose an
  email, and hit send.  The sending user would not see the recipient's email
  address.  The site, which knows the email address, would then send the
  email.  If two people are interested in further communication, they can
  always exchange email addresses through use of this "email" page.

  Sincerely,
  Brian Galebach

  -----Original Message-----
  From: N. J. A. Sloane [mailto:njas at research.att.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:17 AM
  To: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
  Cc: njas at research.att.com
  Subject: email and s p a m blocking


  Dear Seqfans

  What should we do about posting email addresses in the OEIS ?

  On the one hand it is important to post addresses so that
  people can get in touch with each other about sequences

  On the other hand there are programs that search the web
  for email addresses and sell them to spammers

  One possible solution would be to modify email addresses in an obvious way

  For example, change   lbj at whitehouse.com  to  lbj=OEIS=whitehouse.com

  in other words, replace "@" in every email address by "=OEIS="

  Does anyone have a better idea?

  Neil Sloane

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