OpenEuphoria

Re: Email address in web interface

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