At 01:20 PM 12/1/97 -0800, you wrote: >>I have a mailto to the piclist on my web page, but it is not on the main >>page, you must follow a link from the main page to get to it. Is this OK? >>If not, how would anyone recommend that I let people know how to access the >>piclist? Just remove the "mailto:" ? > >robot programs try every link on your main page and download all successive >pages and automatically extract mailto's from the pages. to avoid this >problem, either remove the mailto altogether, or replace it with a cgi that >generates the mail. > >also, do people link to the piclist itself, or to the subscription address? >linking to the piclist seems a bit odd, since it would allow a person to >send mail to the list without subscribing. or worse, they might try to send >subscription requests to the list itself. > >::jory bell > My link is to the listserv itself, not the list, should I still take some action to change this? Sean +--------------------------------+ | Sean Breheny | | Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM | | Electrical Engineering Student | +--------------------------------+ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 Web Page Under Construction! mailto:shb7@cornell.edu