http://admin.auda.org.au/passwordMail/PasswordMail still works.

Dave Hooper

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Davies [mailto:kim§cynosure.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, 28 July 2003 4:57 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: Re: [DNS] auDA password recovery


Quoting Kirk Fletcher on Monday July 28, 2003:
| 
| I hadn't really thought of it before - but the only thing I can think 
| of is that it displays the email address and so can be used to harvest

| addresses by spammers.
| 
| This of course can be done through whois anyway - but this has limits 
| on number of hits from a specific IP.
| 
| That's all I can think of - perhaps I'm missing something else.

Well, that one is easily fixed.  Just don't show the email, or show it
in some kind of obfuscated format, or use a captcha challenge.

kim

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