urgent business/investment deal - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Mar 2002

...
  I'm just telling you like it is. It's called
outreach. There is gear in 
 the hands of people who, say, come across the archives from links, who 
 will have no interest whatsoever in subscribing, and we need to keep it 
 as easy as possible for them to post, or stuff will get junked that 
 shouldn't. 
Ancestry.com does this very effectively.

They have a message archive, but then you nring up a message,
you don't see the RFC822 e-mail address, just the name of the 
poster.

Like with E-Bay, if you want the actual address, you click a 
link that takes you to a different page. Here is where the
difference begins, and why Ancesrty's way is much cooler
than E-Bay's (but then _cooler than E-Bay_ isn't hard to do).

Anyway, you get a page where the host system looks up the
actual e-mail address, then constructs a graphic image
ON THE FLY that is a "picture" of the poster's e-mail
address.

Gonna take a hell of a bot to break through that...

Regards,
-doug q