A *very* simple spam blocker for our email addresses

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:18 pm

Phade,

Could you add some code to the site to replace "@" with a picture of an "@"? That way, when spam-bots crawl the site looking for email addresses, they won't see any.

I'm not sure how difficult this would be for you to implement in PHP, but I know in ASP all you would need is

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Replace("[content to check]","@","<img src=""[location of @ image]"">")

Either that, or if there's a way to have one email address in our profile for any automatic mailers you use, and another that is displayed on the site. (That way we can make the public address something like mynameREMOVE@THISTEXTmysite.com)

Thanks for the feedback, and if this has already been suggested I appologize for the repeat. I did a search of the fourum and didn't find anything.

Org Profile · Post by **Phade** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:29 pm

Hey,

My email address is splattered all over this site for the last three years, but I don't get that much spam (~20/day). If someone was using this site as an email harvest ground, my email box should be overflowing by now.

But as for your request, I will have to think about it. Right now, however, my focus is on getting ready for the VCA in two weeks.

Phade.

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:18 pm

Yet Phade found time to give people silly titles...

/rages at darkness of the night

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:56 pm

I like my silly title...

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:27 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:I like my silly title...

I should beat you with a wet noodle for conspiring against me...

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:30 pm

You may keep your wet noodle away from me

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:31 pm

EarthCurrent wrote:Yet Phade found time to give people silly titles...

/rages at darkness of the night

It's the output of a very simple script, which probably took less than a minute to write.

Preparing for the VCAs, on the other hand, isn't such a trivial job.

Besides, the titles are funny.

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:01 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:You may keep your wet noodle away from me

Who do you recommend I hit with it then?

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:10 pm

Thanks Phade.

Good luck getting ready for the awards!

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:19 pm

Scintilla wrote:
EarthCurrent wrote:/rages at darkness of the night
You mean, the dying of the light.

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Thomas has his dying light.
Whilst I have my dark night.
Surrender now or prepare to fight.
Meowth that's right!

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A very simple spam blocker for our email addresses

A very simple spam blocker for our email addresses