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<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sorry
for so many emails. I'll sit here and think a while before I send another
one.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=380081815-06112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Brian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Brian L. Galebach
[mailto:briang@SEGmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:49
AM<BR><B>To:</B> njas@research.att.com;
seqfan@ext.jussieu.fr<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: email and s p a m
blocking<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>OK. I set up an example. To email me, click this
link -> </FONT><A href="http://probabilitysports.com/mail2bri.html"><FONT
size=2>http://probabilitysports.com/mail2bri.html</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>. 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 <FONT
face=Arial>outlook<SPAN class=610044614-06112002><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#000000>'s</FONT> </FONT></SPAN>a bit</FONT>
inflexible.<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Brian L. Galebach
[</FONT><A target=_blank href="mailto:briang@SEGmail.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:briang@SEGmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]<BR>Sent: Wednesday,
November 06, 2002 9:13 AM<BR>To: njas@research.att.com;
seqfan@ext.jussieu.fr<BR>Subject: RE: email and s p a m blocking<BR><BR><BR>I
don't like the idea of just modifying the email addresses in an
obvious<BR>way, as some have suggested. Just have a link for each
contributer to a<BR>page where you can send a message. This really isn't
at all hard to do, and<BR>would make all our email addresses completely
secure. Privacy is a serious<BR>concern, and this issue deserves a
serious solution, not a cluge.<BR><BR>Brian<BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Brian L. Galebach [</FONT><A target=_blank
href="mailto:briang@SEGmail.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:briang@SEGmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]<BR>Sent: Tuesday,
November 05, 2002 2:28 PM<BR>To: njas@research.att.com;
seqfan@ext.jussieu.fr<BR>Subject: RE: email and s p a m
blocking<BR><BR><BR>How about this:<BR><BR>Perhaps instead of showing an email
address, the site could have, for each<BR>contributer, a link to a "send
email" page where a person could compose an<BR>email, and hit send. The
sending user would not see the recipient's email<BR>address. The site,
which knows the email address, would then send the<BR>email. If two
people are interested in further communication, they can<BR>always exchange
email addresses through use of this "email" page.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR>Brian
Galebach<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: N. J. A. Sloane [</FONT><A
target=_blank href="mailto:njas@research.att.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:njas@research.att.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]<BR>Sent: Tuesday,
November 05, 2002 11:17 AM<BR>To: seqfan@ext.jussieu.fr<BR>Cc:
njas@research.att.com<BR>Subject: email and s p a m blocking<BR><BR><BR>Dear
Seqfans<BR><BR>What should we do about posting email addresses in the OEIS
?<BR><BR>On the one hand it is important to post addresses so that<BR>people
can get in touch with each other about sequences<BR><BR>On the other hand
there are programs that search the web<BR>for email addresses and sell them to
spammers<BR><BR>One possible solution would be to modify email addresses in an
obvious way<BR><BR>For example, change lbj@whitehouse.com
to lbj=OEIS=whitehouse.com<BR><BR>in other words, replace "@" in every
email address by "=OEIS="<BR><BR>Does anyone have a better idea?<BR><BR>Neil
Sloane<BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>