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Today's topics:
"Simple" regex advice (possibly '/' causing an issue?) <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net>
Re: "Simple" regex advice (possibly '/' causing an issu <nobull@mail.com>
Re: ##Nevermind!## <uri@stemsystems.com>
Re: ##Nevermind!## (Tad McClellan)
Re: [OT] Is the perl review still active? <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Re: and Randal L. Schwartz the hacker <tim@vegeta.ath.cx>
Re: and Randal L. Schwartz the hacker <chesucat@freeshell.org>
Re: column_info <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
Re: dogma ...without the personal attacks <dha@panix.com>
Re: dogma ...without the personal attacks (Si Ballenger)
Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall <ellem52@mac.com>
Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall (Madhu Nair)
Re: Explain the method for a newbie <noreply@gunnar.cc>
Re: Explain the method for a newbie (Steve D)
Re: Explain the method for a newbie (Tad McClellan)
Re: Explain the method for a newbie (Tad McClellan)
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou (Nick Kew)
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou (Tad McClellan)
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou <abigail@abigail.nl>
Re: How can I put my email address on my website withou <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:48:59 GMT
From: "Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net>
Subject: "Simple" regex advice (possibly '/' causing an issue?)
Message-Id: <20030820194908.13585607.ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net>
Evening all =)
Working on a "simple" hack but some regex isn't playing ball (my fault
somewhere).. the code I'm currently using looks like (note: there's many
more elegant ways I'm sure, but this is a "quick hack" at present):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $scan_path = '/home/tk/tmp/mails/';
my $scan_command = 'f-prot -archive -packed -collect -dumb';
my $scan_results = `$scan_command $scan_path`;
my ($user, $attachment, $infection);
$scan_results =~ s#.*Switches: -ARCHIVE -PACKED
-COLLECT\n\n(.*)\n\nResults of virus scanning:.*#$1#s;
if (m#^$scan_path(.*?)->(.*)\s+Infection:\s+(.*)$#) {
($user,$attachment, $infection) = ($1, $2, $3);
}
print "$scan_results\n\n";
print <<EOS;
Username : $user
Attachment : $attachment
Infection : $infection
EOS
The output looks like:
/usr/home/tk/tmp/mails/mailbox->screen_doc.pif Infection:
W32/Sobig.B@mm
/usr/home/tk/tmp/mails/tk_mbox->screen_doc.pif Infection:
W32/Sobig.B@mm
(note: this is on 2 lines only in a shell.. wrapped by news client)
When running the script, I get the following output:
[tk@hybris:~/dev/perl]$ ./mail_scan.pl
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at ./mail_scan.pl line
13./usr/home/tk/tmp/mails/mailbox->screen_doc.pif Infection:
W32/Sobig.B@mm/usr/home/tk/tmp/mails/tk_mbox->screen_doc.pif Infection:
W32/Sobig.B@mm
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
./mail_scan.pl line 18. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.)
or string at ./mail_scan.pl line 18. Use of uninitialized value in
concatenation (.) or string at ./mail_scan.pl line 18. Username :
Attachment :
Infection :
I suspect (although I may well be wrong) that the / in the path is
causing a possibly issue, but I'm stumped.
If anyone has any help or advice.. it'd be greatly appreciated =)
TIA.
Regards,
Ian
--
Ian.H [Design & Development]
digiServ Network - Web solutions
www.digiserv.net | irc.digiserv.net | forum.digiserv.net
Programming, Web design, development & hosting.
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 22:11:57 +0100
From: Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
Subject: Re: "Simple" regex advice (possibly '/' causing an issue?)
Message-Id: <u94r0cf2zm.fsf@wcl-l.bham.ac.uk>
"Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> writes:
> Evening all =)
Due to the propagation delays of Usenet, the timezone differences in
an international forum and the fact that most people only read
newsgroups a couple of times a day it is totally unsafe to assume that
it is evening to all. :-)
> #!/usr/bin/perl
[ snip 11 lines of code that doesn't do anything that would set $_ ]
> if (m#^$scan_path(.*?)->(.*)\s+Infection:\s+(.*)$#) {
> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at ./mail_scan.pl line
> 13
Well, you've done nothing to set $_ (so it'll be undef) then you do a
m// with no =~ (so it'll act on $_, which, as I said, is undef).
--
\\ ( )
. _\\__[oo
.__/ \\ /\@
. l___\\
# ll l\\
###LL LL\\
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:58:37 GMT
From: Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
Subject: Re: ##Nevermind!##
Message-Id: <x7vfssupeq.fsf@mail.sysarch.com>
>>>>> "T" == Tony <res1kymn@verizon.net> writes:
T> I'm sure now, that this is the wrong place for help. You guys have
T> a good day.
glad to see you go out the door. please take hudson and moronzilla with
you. have fun with them and perl!
uri
--
Uri Guttman ------ uri@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.stemsystems.com
--Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding-
Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:58:53 -0500
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: ##Nevermind!##
Message-Id: <slrnbk7knt.81s.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Tony <res1kymn@verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm sure now, that this is the wrong place for help.
This is the right place for Perl programming help, if you ever need
any of that, then come on back!
This is not the right place to search for programs.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:03:26 -0400
From: "Matt Garrish" <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [OT] Is the perl review still active?
Message-Id: <_JO0b.2473$c_.96510@news20.bellglobal.com>
"Mothra" <mothra@nowhereatall.com> wrote in message
news:3f43a4c0$1@usenet.ugs.com...
>
> Does anyone know if the perl review is still active? The last issue is Jan
> of this year.
> I was thinking of submitting an article and noticed it has been a while
> since the
> last pub.
>
I don't know for certain, but I remember when it launched it was electronic
only, so if they're no longer even maintaining the electronic...
Matt
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 12:40:47 -0700
From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: and Randal L. Schwartz the hacker
Message-Id: <slrnbk7jni.ek7.tim@vegeta.ath.cx>
Chesucat graced us by uttering:
> Most ex-cons generally don't do so well after the 'big house'
> and they end up working day labor jobs, until they commit
> another crime.
If you had done any research (as I urge any other readers to do),
you'd know there was never any prison time assigned, and the
short jail sentence was later suspended.
> I really impress that he doing well and not back in the system.
> Most people don't give ex-cons and felons a second chance!
No, most spend too much time spreading FUD. To quote Randal:
"Sad, actually."
Tim Hammerquist
--
: I don't know whether to be pleased or appalled.
This is Perl. The two are not mutually exclusive.
-- Larry Wall in <199904301721.KAA11110@kiev.wall.org>
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:36:00 -0400
From: Chesucat <chesucat@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: and Randal L. Schwartz the hacker
Message-Id: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0308201731580.13458-100000@norge.freeshell.org>
On 20 Aug 2003, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> No, most spend too much time spreading FUD. To quote Randal:
>
> "Sad, actually."
>
> Tim Hammerquist
<chesucat twitches his left eye>
<chesucat pants and fumes>
<chesucat grins wickedly>
Hudson started it! when he shuts up, then the big bad, crazy ole troll
will go away!;-)
--
chesucat@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
-- William Gilbert
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:07:13 GMT
From: James Willmore <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
Subject: Re: column_info
Message-Id: <20030820140648.14adc2bd.jwillmore@cyberia.com>
On 20 Aug 2003 07:35:12 -0700
pgollucci@ejpress.com (Philip M. Gollucci) wrote:
> Hi, I've got an issue with $dbh->column_info for DBD::Oracle.
>
> Basically the function returns undef to me and I've seen the exact
> same code
> work under DBD::ODBC.
>
> foreach my $column_nm (@column_nms) {
> my $sth = $dbh->column_info(undef, $schema, $table_nm,
> $column_nm);
> my $hashref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref(); ### line 278
> my $type_name = $hashref->{'type_name'};
> my $size = $hashref->{'column_size'};
>
> }
>
> Basically the fetchrow_hashref failes because:
> Can't call method "fetchrow_hashref" on an undefined value at
> /opt/ejpress/ams/cgi-bin/AMSDbMaintenance.pm line 278.
The DBI module provides a method for capturing the 'conversation'
between the script and the database in question. Have you tried
something like ...
DBI->trace(4,'tracefile');
The tracefile may hold some useful information about what happened.
For more information about the 'trace' method, consult the DBI
documentation.
You may also want to check with the DBD::Oracle documentation as well.
I am not certain, but some methods are available with some drivers
(DBD modules) and others are not. Again, I'm not sure about this, so
you may want to double check me.
HTH
Jim
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:17:29 +0000 (UTC)
From: "David H. Adler" <dha@panix.com>
Subject: Re: dogma ...without the personal attacks
Message-Id: <slrnbk7ia9.nv9.dha@panix2.panix.com>
In article <ipg6kv02nk9gk8egmmq39lfmnaf5le5a7i@4ax.com>, hudson wrote:
>>m-w.com defines dogma as "something held as an established opinion".
>>So in that sense, yes, there's a lot of dogma.
>
> Hi...I always thought of dogma as pretty much a party line...it
> doesn't have good connotations....kind of fascist
Granted, that is another accepted definition of dogma.
>>That, however, doesn't make it wrong. The dogma in question is the
>>result of many years of experience.
>
> Fascist reasoning is to be questioned...that's for sure! Never trust
> the party line...
You seem to be missing my point. Just because something is "the party
line" doesn't make it wrong. It doesn't make it right either, but just
because a majority believes something doesn't make them automatically
wrong.
For example, the idea that murder is a Bad Thing (tm) is pretty
generally accepted. Does that mean it's a good thing? No. Granted,
it's an extreme example, but it's still the same idea.
dha
--
David H. Adler - <dha@panix.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
"Anybody's apt to trip."
"Not over a sofa!" - The Lady Eve
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:55:17 GMT
From: shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net (Si Ballenger)
Subject: Re: dogma ...without the personal attacks
Message-Id: <3f43e9b7.69214655@news.comporium.net>
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:31:33 -0700, hudson
<scripts_you_know_the_drill_@hudsonscripting.com> wrote:
>I'm going to say it again...there is a whole lot of dogma and
>mythology in this group.
>
>Leave out the personal attacks this time and try to have a serious
>discussion about it...otherwise you are just degrading Perl......
There is a small clique of comp.lang.perl.misc "clerics" that
like to beat up on nubies and other infidels that don't bow
before them. When they resort to personal attacks, you know
you've got them out of their safe little caves and have them on
the run. Sooner or later they will give you their big "PLONK!",
which is the equivalent of them rolling over like a dog,
urinating on themselves, and then hiding under mommies skirt.
Actually good entertainment. ;-)
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:36:58 -0400
From: Lou Moran <ellem52@mac.com>
Subject: Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall
Message-Id: <atf7kvseqmof6092180s19n3o5qtiufm6k@4ax.com>
On 20 Aug 2003 10:45:29 -0700, eloormadhu@hotmail.com (Madhu Nair)
wrote wonderful things about me:
>I read through FAQ, but still having some confusion.
>
>In our network both in and out FTP is blocked in the firewall and port
>80 is opened to out. Their is no ftp or http proxy.
>So how can I use CPAN to update/install modules as currently it hangs
>at ftp line
http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/lib/CPAN.html#working%20with%20cpan.pm%20behind%20firewalls
--
Mac OS X: Because it was easier to make UNIX user friendly than fix Windows.
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:47:41 GMT
From: James Willmore <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
Subject: Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall
Message-Id: <20030820164716.76431e0d.jwillmore@cyberia.com>
On 20 Aug 2003 10:45:29 -0700
eloormadhu@hotmail.com (Madhu Nair) wrote:
> I read through FAQ, but still having some confusion.
>
> In our network both in and out FTP is blocked in the firewall and
> port 80 is opened to out. Their is no ftp or http proxy.
> So how can I use CPAN to update/install modules as currently it
> hangs at ftp line
In a nutshell, if you can access the Internet (ie your network allows
outbound traffic to the Internet via port 80), then you can use CPAN -
you just have to configure it to do so.
Don't be offended, but can you use a browser to access the Internet
from your network? If so, how is the browser set up to do this?
I'm thinking the answer may present itself after you answer these two
questions.
HTH
Jim
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:31:45 -0700
From: eloormadhu@hotmail.com (Madhu Nair)
Subject: Re: downloading CPAN modules behind firewall
Message-Id: <ba154189.0308201331.3df95316@posting.google.com>
I am a newbie.
I have already read that doc. But still figuring out how to do it.
If some one could tell me the config option, I will appretiate it
Madhu
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:26:46 +0200
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
Subject: Re: Explain the method for a newbie
Message-Id: <bi0i5k$3tvdf$1@ID-184292.news.uni-berlin.de>
Dave Saville wrote:
>
>>>>You should have read the Posting Guidelines before making such a
>>>>statement:
>>>>http://mail.augustmail.com/~tadmc/clpmisc/clpmisc_guidelines.html
>
> Which begs the question that having found a group, presumably by
> scanning group names in a newsreader, how does one know where to go for
> guidelines? - if any -
I guess that what this is about is that you need to acquaint yourself
with Usenet in general before starting using it. This document may be
a good starting-point: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1855.html
The guidelines for this group are posted here regularly in accordance
with the netiquette.
> and I for one can't resolve that URL.
It is correct, that's all I can say.
--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 13:01:45 -0700
From: google.deller@smsail.com (Steve D)
Subject: Re: Explain the method for a newbie
Message-Id: <e41b2b3b.0308201201.8fe78fe@posting.google.com>
tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan) wrote in message news:<slrnbk6ujk.73q.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>...
> Naren <narendranath.ts@in.bosch.com> wrote:
>
> > perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/'
> >
> > This code prints prime if the input is prime
>
> http://montreal.pm.org/tech/neil_kandalgaonkar.shtml
So why these results (all are primes -- the first two are 2**17-1 and
2**13-1, well known Mersenne primes, 32003 is stated as prime in the
reference article)?
I wouldn't have thought that 262143 "ones" would have exhausted
memory. So is the regex crashing?
$ perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/'
262143
$ perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' 8191
$ perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' 32003
$ perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' 967
Prime
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source
kit.
regards,
Steve D
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:49:49 -0500
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Explain the method for a newbie
Message-Id: <slrnbk7nnd.83u.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc> wrote:
> this group is not intended for
> people who "don't know anything of perl".
Sure it is, _if_ they want to change that.
(The OP did not appear to meet that predicate though...)
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:52:00 -0500
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Explain the method for a newbie
Message-Id: <slrnbk7nrg.83u.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Dave Saville <dave.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> how does one know where to go for
> guidelines?
Lurk.
They are posted here twice a week.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:19:14 -0400
From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <MPG.19ad93c0d0d49dba98b1bc@news.odyssey.net>
In article <hvO0b.2433$c_.95785@news20.bellglobal.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Matt Garrish
<matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Create a script to generate the mail for you using one of the mail modules
>on cpan. All you need on your page is an entry field for the user's return
>address and a textbox for the message.
I will no longer co-operate with these because too often I get no
response. I don't know whether it' because the mail never reached
the Webmaster, or the Webmaster is simply not polite enough to
respond.
One data point, take it for what it's worth.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:41:45 -0400
From: "Matt Garrish" <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <aaQ0b.2810$c_.102522@news20.bellglobal.com>
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:MPG.19ad93c0d0d49dba98b1bc@news.odyssey.net...
>
> I will no longer co-operate with these because too often I get no
> response. I don't know whether it' because the mail never reached
> the Webmaster, or the Webmaster is simply not polite enough to
> respond.
>
I think that's more a reflection of the professionalism of the site owners.
Shame on them if they can't write and debug a mail script before using it on
their site, and double shame if they put the work in and then don't bother
to respond to their visitors/customers.
Matt
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:53:44 +0100
From: nick@fenris.webthing.com (Nick Kew)
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <8kj0ib.dd1.ln@jarl.webthing.com>
In article <MPG.19ad93c0d0d49dba98b1bc@news.odyssey.net>, one of infinite monkeys
>>on cpan. All you need on your page is an entry field for the user's return
>>address and a textbox for the message.
>
> I will no longer co-operate with these because too often I get no
> response. I don't know whether it' because the mail never reached
> the Webmaster, or the Webmaster is simply not polite enough to
> respond.
I offer users both the above and an email address - to give them the
choice of whatever they're happier with. Both get used - so I infer
different people have different preferences.
At the moment with all the latest Microsoft worm hitting the server,
it's even more than usually filtered. Talking of which, all the crap
has a header "X-MailScanner: Found to be clean". Am I in danger of
losing legit. email by filtering on that?
--
Nick Kew
In urgent need of paying work - see http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:56:16 -0500
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <slrnbk7o3g.83u.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Achim Baur <achim.baur@gmx.de> wrote:
> The subject speaks for itself: I am looking for a way to put my email
> address out there without generating Spam or attracting Worms.
>
> On the other hand I don't want to ask to much of computer illaterates by
> simply writing "nospam" somewhere in the address.
>
> Has anyone already thought of a more sophisticated method, like e.g.
> generating the address dynamically? Sorry if this has been asked before
> but I did not really find anything googling.
What is your Perl question?
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 21:34:51 GMT
From: Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl>
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <slrnbk7qbr.k5q.abigail@alexandra.abigail.nl>
Achim Baur (achim.baur@gmx.de) wrote on MMMDCXLI September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:bi088d$3sscv$1@ID-13112.news.uni-berlin.de>:
## The subject speaks for itself: I am looking for a way to put my email
## address out there without generating Spam or attracting Worms.
##
## On the other hand I don't want to ask to much of computer illaterates by
## simply writing "nospam" somewhere in the address.
##
## Has anyone already thought of a more sophisticated method, like e.g.
## generating the address dynamically? Sorry if this has been asked before
## but I did not really find anything googling.
Do you have a Perl question?
Abigail
--
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label
on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the
Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on
another computer, another word processor, or another network.
[Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996]
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:29:59 GMT
From: James Willmore <jwillmore@cyberia.com>
Subject: Re: How can I put my email address on my website without attracting Spam?
Message-Id: <20030820142934.260887c4.jwillmore@cyberia.com>
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:39:18 +0200
Achim Baur <achim.baur@gmx.de> wrote:
> The subject speaks for itself: I am looking for a way to put my
> email address out there without generating Spam or attracting Worms.
attracting Worms? Viruses, perhaps, but not worms. The emails
produced by worms to self-propagate are just an added 'feature' of
worms, not how they infect systems directly. However, this is not a
Perl issue. Did you want to do this using Perl -or- was this just a
generic "I don't know where else to post this" type question?
> before but I did not really find anything googling.
Redefine your search. Using the keywords:
tips prevent spam web posting
on Google yeilded this interesting article:
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-993333.html
Total time: about 20 seconds.
In your post, you just stated email to websites, did you mean just
newsgroups? Are you going to send email to the newsgroup using a Perl
script to do so? You could look over the Net::NNTP module to
acomplish this.
HTH
Jim
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