Re: RF design Mag article

dagmargoodboat@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Hi James,

Thanks for your kindness. To avoid publishing my email address so
spammers can harvest it, could you email a copy to the address on my
contact page?

http://silversol.freewebpage.org/contact.htm

Done. Apologies in advance for the HTML -- it was my first go with
Outhouse Express.

James

Hi James,

Thanks - got it. Unfortunately it's a little too big for my Base64 decoder,
so I will have to write my own so I can retrieve it. There are plenty of
decoders on the web, but they can take up a megabyte or more, and I don't
feel like wasting that amount of space for a routine that only takes 654
bytes in assembly, plus 8 bytes of stack:)

If you just started with Outhouse, you might be interested in another
alternative rather than accept the constant risk of some hacker figuring
out a way to install a rootkit. Geminisoft has an excellent email client
called Pimmy that allows unlimited email addresses with arbitrary servers.
The free version is available at

http://www.geminisoft.com/en/

I get a bunch of disposable email addresses from http://www.mymail.com/ and
add them to Pimmy's Sender's list, so I can send and receive emails using
any address. Some are used for friends, other for clients or web
registration, etc. So you always know where each one went, and if you start
getting spam from one just delete that address and get another.

The nice thing about Pimmy is it has no native decoders, which means nobody
can send you an email with an embedded virus and have it activate as soon
as you open the file. So it is impossible to get infected with an
unsolicited email.

The email address on my contact page is encoded to hex. This completely
foils email harvesters since there are too many different ways to encode
addresses, and they don't want to waste the time. There are plenty of other
victims to get without any hassle. So I never get any spam from the contact
page, except unwanted junk from vendors.

The warning notes on my contact page are mainly for vendors and job
hunters. They like to send 10 megabyte product brochures or 5 megabyte
resumes in pdf and doc format. And html should simply be banned anyway for
email since it is so easy to embed javascript or Visual Basic commands that
effectively can do anything with your computer. Except if you are using
Pimmy, which won't decode or execute anything, including html:)

Anyway, thanks for the article. I'll get busy converting my Base64 routine
to replace the one I downloaded that can't handle large files. Should be
trivial to do.

Regards,

Mike Monett

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