#36768 [Opn->WFx]: Email addresses easily harvested

ID: 36768 Updated by: danbrown@php.net Reported By: phpbug at chipple dot net -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: This is still the unwritten standard for plain-text email obfuscation, so at this time the issue won't be fixed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-17 08:13:50] phpbug at chipple dot net 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36768&edit=1