RE: Spammer crawling www.php.net message boards for addresses
| From: | James Cox | Date: | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:27:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: Spammer crawling www.php.net message boards for addresses | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.mirrors |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McArthur [mailto:david@davidmcarthur.com]
>
> In case you're interested, here is spam (attached) I just received to
> an address <php.net@davidmcarthur.com> that has only ever appeared on
> www.php.net documentation note boards. I'm sure this happens all the
> time, and I don't expect you to do anything about it. Just FYI,
> someone is clearly crawling your boards for addresses and removing
> your obfuscation.
i think we're getting to a point where our only option would be to create
images of the mailto:s, or add random text strings that have javascript
which decodes them.. or store them as base64 encoded strings, and again use
js to decode them. I think whatever we do, the spammers are going to get
clever -- so what's the point?
Therefore, i propose we just drop displaying email addresses.
-- james