OpenEuphoria

Re: Euforum and email

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Nov 09, 2005
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Craig Roberts wrote:
> > Rob: is there a way to hide our email addresses?  Some people(including me,
> > of course) don't want to divulge their addresses to the world at large.  
> 
> Currently there isn't, but I'll ask Junko to look into it as an option.
> It would mean that people couldn't send you private e-mail about topics
> raised on EUforum. Note that all addresses appear on EUforum and the 
> message archive using " at " rather than at-sign.
> That's probably enough to fool most automatic e-mail 
> harvesting software. As for manual harvesting, I doubt that it's 
> worth someone's time to do it.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>

I'm not advocating for taking email addresses off of the EUforum, but I don't
think that it would be too difficult to write an email address harvester that
looks for patterns in text that match normal methods of email munging.

Fortunately the spam filter at yahoo dot com (is this an address? ) is pretty
good.

One thing for users of services such as PayPal should watch out for are phishing
emails. I get them all the time claiming to be from service at paypal.com, and
they look very real and will take you to a web page that looks exactly like
PayPal's. Then they ask for your credit card number. Always be aware of the
address that you are at. Hover the mouse over links because the address in the
toolbar may fool you as well.


j.