Email address request

This is more of a question and not a problem. What is this new thing

with requesting and email address with the 20 sec delay. Does the

person get an email telling you they requested it. I havn�t been on

photo.net for about a week so this may have been announced but I

didn�t see it. Thanks

Did not see it beeing announced either,but i guess it is to "block" search machines that crawl through pages grabbing all e-mail addresses the can get, so that you can get a nice heap of spamm.

I think most of these search engines do NOT wait 20 seconds for a page, so the address is "safe"..

But this is just a guess ;)

Greetz,

André.

Andre has the right answer. We don't let the person know that you've "requested" the address; however, we do log in the database that the address was retrieved. This also allows our software to go into panic mode if there are too may address requests in a short space of time and to stop handing out the addresses.

If I was an address harvester, I would open many (a ton) of different connections. Say I open 40, the effective delay is now half a second. This would work except for the fact that a single user can only retrieve 20 addresses per day. : )