Privacy increase for member email addresses

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AbsoluteDestiny
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Privacy increase for member email addresses

Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:29 pm

I've modified the main site profile so that any members who have set "Always show my e-mail address" in their forum profile to "No" will not have their email displayed on their member profile.

The email address will still be accessible to admins, of course.

Once I get round to it I'll add the same email hiding option on the main profile edit page too.

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Post by bum » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:49 pm

I remember someone making a sujestion a while ago to replace all @ in email addresses with an image of an @ to stop email harvesting programs from collecting all emails on the site.

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Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:50 pm

bum wrote:I remember someone making a sujestion a while ago to replace all @ in email addresses with an image of an @ to stop email harvesting programs from collecting all emails on the site.
We can do this too I guess. I'll look into it.

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Post by derobert » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:34 am

bum wrote:I remember someone making a sujestion a while ago to replace all @ in email addresses with an image of an @ to stop email harvesting programs from collecting all emails on the site.
I wonder how well that actually stops email harvesters (how hard can it really be to have your harvester work around this) vs. how well it just screws over the blind, people with images off, etc.
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Post by Samuraid » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:58 pm

You could also encode the e-mail addresses in HTML entities.

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Post by godix » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:05 am

How much of a problem is spam harvesters really? AFAIK the threat of email harvesting is greatly overexagerated on specialized forums like the org. I have a hotmail address listed so I'm getting loads of spam regardless of if it's public or not but can someone who has a non-free email service address verify if they've ever gotten spammed because their address was avalable on the org?
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Post by Corran » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:03 am

My org email address only gets spam becuase I have admin email forwarding enabled on my personal web site. Before I did that I never received spam on the address I use at the org.

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Post by trythil » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:14 am

godix wrote:How much of a problem is spam harvesters really? AFAIK the threat of email harvesting is greatly overexagerated on specialized forums like the org. I have a hotmail address listed so I'm getting loads of spam regardless of if it's public or not but can someone who has a non-free email service address verify if they've ever gotten spammed because their address was avalable on the org?
My trythil@crescentisland.com address gets a whole heck of a lot of spam; it never really got spammed before I used it here.

I don't really care, though. Every piece of spam that flows in is more training data for bogofilter, which in turn helps my spam filtering on other accounts. I say bring it on: there's no real way for spammers to win against modern spam-filtering software.

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Post by badmartialarts » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:44 am

Sure there is, (viagra) because any (Nigeria) technology has a (penis increasing) loophole. :P

Honestly, I can't attribute any extra spam to my old e-mail address, and so far I haven't got any on my new one. :)
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Post by tuathaanwarrior » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:53 pm

Actually, i have my email public in several places and i only get around 3-5 spam emails per week somehow and yahoo puts all of them in the junk folder.

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