Re: Episode 13: Special guest echicken, Synchronet web dev, and Mr. Robot
By: echicken to Digital Man on Wed Dec 09 2015 12:50 pm
> DM> That was quick! Looks like you ran the verify step too! Normally, those
> DM> will be run from Vertrauen the results (including login screen capture)
> DM> will be distributed via the SYNCDATA echo, but it's good to have
> DM> something
>
> Yes - I noticed that the preview for each BBS wasn't populated after I
> imported the list from SYNCDATA, so I ran the verify step locally so that
> I'd have some "images" to work with.
Cool. Glad you figured that out. I didn't remember if I had added any
command-line syntax help output, but you are skilled in the ways of the source,
so that's good.
> DM> to test with. You're encouraged to help beautify load/sbbslist_html.js
> DM> too, but the generated sbbslist.html is a stand-alone page (not
> DM> integrated with any web framework) intentionally.
>
> I actually think it looks okay, though it's a bit slow to load. It's clean
> and simple, which is good - and would look fine if iframed into another
> page. I could make a few cosmetic changes, but that would just be to make
> it suit my preferences and not because it's bad in its current state.
My brother asked me why I didn't use images rather than HTML-ified ANSI/CP437
test and my answer was because the text scales really well and it's searchable
and indexed/scraped well by archiving engines. Images would probably be a lot
smaller and load faster though.
> I'm not sure if spammers harvesting addresses from mailto links is still /
> ever was much of a problem, but it might be good to omit the sysop email
> addresses from the list, or obscure them. There are a number of ways to do
> this with client-side JS, which would stop simple scrapers. (Maybe base64
> encode the address when producing the page, then decode it on hover /
> click.)
I think there are still email address harvesters. I think I still some spambait
addresses hidden on someone web-sites and they get new spam often. So yeah,
obscuring that would be good. I've heard the harvesting programs have JS
engines now too, but I don't know if that's a fact. Any help and feedback is
appreciated.
digital man
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