#36768 [NEW]: Email addresses easily harvested

From: phpbug at chipple dot net Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Website problem Bug description: Email addresses easily harvested Description: ------------ The way email addresses are currently obfuscated in the documentation and on bugs.php.net makes it easy for spammers to harvest them just by sending queries to Google. For example, the Google search queries: "* at * dot *" site:php.net "* at * dot * dot *" site:php.net match tons of email addresses, and Google even makes it easy to parse them out since they're highlighted in bold in the results. It would be a good thing if the php.net site would obfuscate users' email addresses in a non-Googleable manner such as removing spaces around "at" and "dot" (e.g. bugsATphpDOTnet) or similar. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36768&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=trysnapshot51 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36768&r=mysqlcfg