#49540 [Asn->WFx]: Automatic posts from PHP WIKI on news.php.net show unfiltered email addresses

ID: 49540 Updated by: lsmith@php.net Reported By: president at basnetworks dot net -Status: Assigned +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: lsmith New Comment: Like I said, I see where you are coming from, but there is no way to keep your email address secret when working in OSS. A bit of obfuscation doesnt stop a spammer and too much simply makes you unreachable. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-14 21:23:55] lsmith@php.net Not sure if we should bother: 1) we need the email to be transparent in order to contact people 2) i am sure every harvester in the world can deal with most of the semi sane "email obscuring syntaxes" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-14 10:15:57] bjori@php.net To be honest, I don't have a problem with the addresses to be shown. Lukas: Could you look into it though? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-13 04:58:34] president at basnetworks dot net Description: ------------ I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I will give it a shot. The automatic posts from PHP WIKI (wiki.php.net) that get posted to http://news.php.net/php.webmaster show unfiltered email addresses ("someone@somewhere.net" instead of "someone at somewhere dot net"). The unfiltered emails are shown in the posts, as shown below: --------------------------------------------- A new user has registered. Here are the details: User name : xxx Full name : xxx xxx E-mail : someone@somewhere.net < PROBLEM! Date : 2009/09/13 04:41 Browser : Mozilla/5.0 ... IP-Address : xx.xx.xx.xx Hostname : xxx --------------------------------------------- This information can be picked up very easily by spam bots, and this single point of weakness makes filtering the addresses everywhere else all for nothing. I would appreciate if it was fixed, and the existing posts are rectified in some way, as my email address is posted unfiltered in one such message. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49540&edit=1