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pwillener
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:09 am Post subject: Forum enhancement request - [email] tag |
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We run, again and again, into the problem where forum members or guests put email addresses into posts, completely open, where they can easily be harvested by bots.
There are a number of methods for munging addresses, and some are well-known to the harvesting bots.
| Code: | | name -at- domain -dot- tld |
or
| Code: | | name (at) domain (dot) tld |
will be found by most bots. So does
| Code: | | name.domain@tld |
What I would like to propose is a method that lets the forum munge the address, so that bots can't detect it, but users can still see it and copy it. Also, moderators would have an easier job munging open addresses.
| Code: | | [email]name@domain.tld[/email] |
would be an easy way to provide such a functionality.
I have in the past manually munged email addresses as follows
| Code: | | [i]name[/i][i]@[/i][i]domain[/i][i].[/i][i]tld[/i] |
This would internally be converted into
| Code: | | <i>name</i><i>@</i><i>domain</i><i>.</i><i>tld</i> |
but displayed as
A simpler way would be to wrap italics tags only around the special characters dot/full-stop, and at-mark/commercial-at.
Of course, a number of tags other than italics could be used for such a matter, e.g. font color:
This would also indicate to the members reading a post that the address was appropriately munged.
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pwillener
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:20 am Post subject: |
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While we are on the subject of munging, we also sometimes don't want to show hyperlinks. We usually do that by disabling the protocol prefix, like
| Quote: | | hxxp://www.domain.tld/ |
We could use the same method as proposed above to hide the address from bots, and make it not clickable at the same time. But users would still be able to copy the correct original URL if they want.
If we want to implement this for multiple purpose, we could instead of
| Code: | | [email] ... [/email] |
use a general tag like
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