#18689 [Opn]: php.net is getting trawled by spammers (yawn)

ID: 18689 Updated by: mfischer@php.net Reported By: phpbug@botanicus.net Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: l00n1x PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: What about using a table to display the address? <table><tr><td>user</td><td>randomobfuscate</td><td>domain.tld</td></tr></table> Btw, I like the image idea. But it doesn't have to be that cpu intensive, we could cache the images (create a md5 sum of the email address which acts as a filename or so). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-02 12:21:48] sander@php.net AFAIK, we're talking only about the bugsystem, not about the annotation system or something else... The bugsystems relies on valid email addresses... IMO this is indeed a php.net website problem. Reopening. (BTW: the bugsystem doesn't get mirrored so that's not a problem) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-02 11:38:57] kalowsky@php.net I don't see how this is a PHP website issue. this happens anywhere/everywhere you may post an email address. If you wish to obfuscate your email, that is upto you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-02 11:07:05] goba@php.net And it would complicate the mirroring process... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-02 10:49:04] sander@php.net We can use gd and embed the e-mail addresses in images... although it's easy, it's quite cpu intensive... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-01 13:29:36] goba@php.net So what method do you suggest us to obfuscate? All the common ones are known by email harvesters... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/18689 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18689&edit=1