Email address harvesting
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- Keith M
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Email address harvesting
Every so often (eg. the last comment here), someone helpfully posts an email address, unaware that spambots will harvest it and subsequently that address will be hammered with spam. Some forum software automatically disguises addresses, using techniques such as those described here. I don't know if there's an addon for PHPBB which could be used, or if the bad word filter could be modified to do the job, but I'll leave the idea with you.
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Re: Email address harvesting
Keith,
Thanks for pointing this out. My email, with which I used to sign posts here, has been getting a ton of spam, particularly from Brazil. Curious if others are getting all sorts of Portuguese language e-commerce spam?
-dan
dan at Gr8lakesdymond.com )
Thanks for pointing this out. My email, with which I used to sign posts here, has been getting a ton of spam, particularly from Brazil. Curious if others are getting all sorts of Portuguese language e-commerce spam?
-dan
dan at Gr8lakesdymond.com )
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Re: Email address harvesting
My personal point of view: I really don't know why people would post their or even other people´s private email address in a public forum. I can't help being a bit cynical now and suggest to use the ultimate spam avoidance mod of this forum: the private messaging system. In there you can even exchange email addresses.
The price of a public forum is that you cannot publish private email addresses.
As an admin I say: If anybody knows of phpbb mods which will disguise the email automatically, I have no problem in trying to install it if it goes well with this version of phpbb.
Suggestions can be posted here, pm-ed or sent to
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The price of a public forum is that you cannot publish private email addresses.
As an admin I say: If anybody knows of phpbb mods which will disguise the email automatically, I have no problem in trying to install it if it goes well with this version of phpbb.
Suggestions can be posted here, pm-ed or sent to
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