OpenEuphoria

1. Email address in web interface

• Posted by Aku <akusaya at gmx.net> Jun 28, 2007
• 661 views

Hi Rob.

Please, could you NOT put sender email address in the EUforum web interface
page?
Even if you replace "@" with "at", the simplest address-miner can recognize it.

I suggest you to use javascript function to show the email address.

Just a simple one like below will work:

In the Euphoria code, instead of

puts(email)

change to:
sequence raw=sprint(email);
puts("<script>document.write(String.fromCharCode(" & raw[2..length(raw)-1] &
"))</script>");

Thanks.

3. Re: Email address in web interface

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jun 28, 2007
• 613 views
• Last edited Jun 29, 2007

Aku wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob.
> 
> Please, could you NOT put sender email address in the EUforum web interface
> page?
> Even if you replace "@" with "at", the simplest address-miner can recognize
> it.
> 
> I suggest you to use javascript function to show the email address.
> 
> Just a simple one like below will work:
> 
> In the Euphoria code, instead of
> }}}
<eucode>
> puts(email)
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> change to:
> sequence raw=sprint(email);
> puts("<script>document.write(String.fromCharCode(" & raw[2..length(raw)-1] &
> "))</script>");
> 
> Thanks.

  Hello Aku and Rob,

I believe the email in EUforum is fine. Anyone who wants to email me go right
  ahead. If I am not expecting email from you, that is to say (with Pegasus) I have
  not earmarked a special folder with the senders name on it then it will be
  deleted anyway. No error no foul, just not read.

Don Cole

5. Re: Email address in web interface

• Posted by Aku <akusaya at gmx.net> Jun 29, 2007
• 628 views

Alexander Toresson wrote:
> 
> Well, mind you that people with browsers that don't support JS (among them
> many
> with various disabilities) won't be able to read the email addresses then.
> 
> One thing that could be done would be to replace all characters in the email
> addresses
> with HTML &#-codes.
> 
> Regards, Alexander Toresson

I understand your concern, however the message page on the EUforum already uses
Javascript for the Reply button...

7. Re: Email address in web interface

• Posted by Aku <akusaya at g?x.net> Jun 30, 2007
• 625 views

Robert Craig wrote:

> Your idea sounds good, but some people have issues with Javascript,
> and I'm not sure if it would work well in an RSS feed. It would also
> be a bit harder for me to handle internally, given the complicated
> way I've coded certain things.
> 
> What I've done, is knock out one character from the domain name
> and replace it with '?'. This will make the address unusable.
> If you aren't sure what the missing character should be, you
> can check a previous post by the same person, since I choose
> the missing character position using rand().
> This additional protection only applies in address fields. 
> Elsewhere in the body of a message, you will just have at-sign 
> replaced by " at " as before. 
> 
> Obviously a human spammer could figure out the missing character,
> but the economics of spamming require automated pick-up of
> thousands of addresses. If the spammer has to manually repair 
> one address at a time, it's not worth it.
> 
> I guess I'm going to also have to tweak the hash function that
> determines the color and font for people's names.
> 

Hey, that's a good idea. I didn't expect you to make the change this fast. 
Thanks for doing it. May we get less spam.

-- waiting for atom a = value("123")[2]  :D