1. Mailbots and Euforum
Rob/Junko,
I just noticed, that my e-mail address in my signature is readable for mailbots
in Euforum!
That's for your program transferres the e-mail content directly into the HTML
page. Would it be possible
to 'encode' legal e-mail notations by translating the term 'mailto:user at
domain.de'
by replacing the characters by it's ascii representation for HTML? My address
should be
written in the Euforum html page like this:
"mailto:Rolf@RSchr.de"
It's still possible to click the address for calling the mail client. But
mailbots are normally
not able to 'decode' this.
Sincerely,
Rolf Schröder
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| Dr.Rolf Schröder | E B |
| Möörkenweg 37 | C |
| 21029 Hamburg | D |
| Deutschland | A |
| Earth |-------------------------------|
| Solar System | Earth Phone : +49-40-724-4650 |
| Milky Way | National Fax: 0721-151-577722 |
| Local Group | mail address purged! |
| Known Universe | http://www.rschr.de |
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2. Re: Mailbots and Euforum
Rolf Schröder wrote:
>
> Rob/Junko,
>
> I just noticed, that my e-mail address in my signature is readable for
> mailbots in
> Euforum!
> That's for your program transferres the e-mail content directly into the HTML
> page.
I second this request. Spammers long ago developed the ability to
extract addresses such as <rolf at foobar dot com>.
I would suggest showing just a screen name, and having a database at
rapideuphoria.com where you could go to look up an actual e-mail address
for a poster (if that poster wanted to have his/her address available)
in the rare event we needed to e-mail someone who we don't already know.
That database would only allow one manual lookup at a time (no wildcards),
so that should prevent automated harvesting.
Irv
3. Re: Mailbots and Euforum
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Rolf Schr=F6der" <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 5:57 AM
Subject: Mailbots and Euforum
>posted by: Rolf Schr=F6der <rolf at rschr.de>
>Rob/Junko,
>I just noticed, that my e-mail address in my signature is readable for
mailbots in Euforum!
>That's for your program transferres the e-mail content directly into the
HTML page. Would it be possible
>to 'encode' legal e-mail notations by translating the term
'mailto:user at domain.de'
>by replacing the characters by it's ascii representation for HTML? My
address should be
>written in the Euforum html page like this:
>
>"mailto:Rolf@R=
&
#83;chr.de"
Sounds like an *excellent* idea to me!
Of coure, what I do is just use allspamgone, but hey, good idea!
>It's still possible to click the address for calling the mail client. But
mailbots are normally
>not able to 'decode' this.
>Sincerely,
>Rolf Schr=F6der
----------------------------------------------------
| Dr.Rolf Schr=F6der | E B |
| M=F6=F6rkenweg 37 | C |
| 21029 Hamburg | D |
| Deutschland | A |
| Earth |-------------------------------|
| Solar System | Earth Phone : +49-40-724-4650 |
| Milky Way | National Fax: 0721-151-577722 |
| Local Group | mail address purged! |
| Known Universe | http://www.rschr.de |
----------------------------------------------------
4. Re: Mailbots and Euforum
On May 9 Rolf Schröder wrote:
> Even the umlauts work fine now. But an email address included in the
> body/signature leads to a translation without the 'at' sign. Would it be
> really
> a security problem to keep the 'at' sign of email addresses within the
> body/signature?
On June 13 Rolf Schröder wrote:
> I just noticed, that my e-mail address in my signature is readable for
> mailbots in
> Euforum!
In May I added a couple of lines of code just for you and
your signature. I'll remove them. They allowed the clear
address to be seen when "mailto" was used.
I think for now replacing "@" with " at " will fool most of
the mailbots. We can improve it in the future.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: Mailbots and Euforum
Robert Craig wrote:
> I think for now replacing " at " with " at " will fool most of
Let's try that again (after minor bug fix):
I think for now replacing "@" with " at " will fool most of
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
