Re: Spammer crawling www.php.net message boards for addresses

> >>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. It's not like people are forced to post their email addresses. If you don't want spam, don't post your email address on a public and popular website. I think the current system is fine. Regards, Philip