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Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7
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Wayne Buttles |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7 |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:36:01 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: root <address@hidden>
> >
> > I have added the restriction=mailcc to prevent the use of Cc: in any
> > mailto: URLs. This was a problem for the guest account use of Lynx at
> > DANEnet (http://danenet.wicip.org). We want to allow for mailto: to be
> > sent, but the Cc: would allow for more general mail to be sent.
> >
> >What is your model of mailto: that makes it desirable and cc: undesirable?
>
> The objective appears to be blocking ability to send mail to
> arbitrary addresses, as opposed to ones occurring as mailto HREFs
> or ACTIONs in documents, no matter how many recipients are specified
> in the document-derived mailto links.
Having receintly been on the other side of the network security fence
(aka, a student ;-), I can tell you than ANY access to mailto leaves
potential for the undesired result. Almost any guest-book will allow me
to write my own mailto url on the fly. Is trapping cc really worth it?
Wayne
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- LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, root, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, Foteos Macrides, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7,
Wayne Buttles <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Added mailcc restriction to Lynx 2.7, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/04/16