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.
+1 Stop asking for them, and stop getting it from DB to the dump,
so there won't be an option to download the full notes dump or mirror
the site silently to get all email addresses.
Goba