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Re: [PHP-DB] how to "email article to a friend" From: Andreas D. Landmark (andreas.landmark <email protected>)
Date: 06/20/01

At 20.06.2001 08:52, you wrote:

>You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email and
>use mail( ) function to send it.

that is _not_ a wise way to do it, you should include some form of
restrictions on how many
emails can be sent to a single account within X minutes for example.
Further you should
restrict by HTTP_REFERER (yep it's poor, but it's better than nothing) so
that a automated
script can't use your email-article-to-a-friend function to "spam"
thousands of people without
any work...

There are quite a few considerations to take into account when writing a
email-article-to-a-friend
function, just to be on the safe side... 

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Andreas D Landmark / noXtension
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