Spam Bots/E-mail Addys
| From: | Jason Soza | Date: | Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:10:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Spam Bots/E-mail Addys | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Just curious...
If I have a site that stores information about people in a database,
including e-mail addresses, and that information is only viewable when
called via a user-specific variable, i.e. their alias, can spambots
still harvest those e-mail addresses?
So for instance I have a page called 'users.php' and to find the e-mail
address for John Smith, you'd follow a link that directs you to
users.php?alias=johnsmith - I guess my main question is, can spambots
follow those types of links, get the resulting page, and harvest the
address off that?
Is there any way to combat this? Any PHP scripts, classes, functions
that can 'hide' e-mail addresses? The site I'll be building needs to
have the e-mail addresses available, but I don't want to subject users
to more spam than they probably already get.
Jason Soza