OpenEuphoria

Re: Mailbots and Euforum

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 13, 2004
• 540 views

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