Re: [vox] Email addresses on Members pages
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Re: [vox] Email addresses on Members pages
Form mail? Would it be too difficult to store all e-mail addresses
mentioned on the list in a database and create form mail page that can
send e-mails by the database index? From experience, it still generates
some spams (actually, mostly nigerian scams), but it's much less (~2/yr
vs. gestimated 100/yr). The database size shouldn't get too big since
it's all short text, and I don't think a lot of people e-mail people from
the archives so it shouldn't produce much load on the system.
Some other ways to reduce spams:
1. HTML munging with "&##;" codes.
2. Javascript munging.
3. Header flag set by the poster to ask the e-mail address be blocked
altogether (won't protect his/her e-mail address if quoted in a
reply, though.)
4. "Type the number sequence in an image below to reveal the real
e-mail address"...? =P
Let me know if you need help coding any of this. I can do a prilim
assessment now and probably get to it in a few weeks.
-Mark
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> We're hoping to one day soon mask e-mail addresses on all archived
> mailing list posts on our website, and while discussing this during an
> officer's meeting today, the subject of e-mail address masking on our
> members page came up. ( http://www.lugod.org/members/ )
>
>
> We're 'munging' addresses so that they have "MAPS" ('spam' backwards) in
> the domain name part of the address (e.g., "nbs@soMAPSnic.net"), but that
> can be inconvenient for people who don't notice or forget, and simply
> try to e-mail the bogus address. :^)
>
> None of the solutions we talked about seemed suitable, so we're wondering
> what people here think. Is it even worth changing? Does the "MAPS" trick
> seem to work (to prevent your addresses from being harvested)?
>
> Thx,
>
> -bill!
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