[vox] Email addresses on Members pages

[David King]

Javascript is really inconvenient to some of us that surf with curl 
(yes, some of us do exist) or Lynx. In theory, HTML munging is 
standards compliant and, in my opinion, acceptable. I like the form 
mail idea, that seems really convenient. In response to Bill's question 
about the MAPS trick working, I've received some spam with both 
myaddress at someplace.com /and/ myMAPSaddress at someplace.com, so obviously 
the crawlers are filtering that out and trying the original as well.

On Jun 21, 2004, at 00.27, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> Form mail?  Would it be too difficult to store all e-mail addresses
> mentioned on the list in a database and create form mail page that can
> send e-mails by the database index?  From experience, it still 
> generates
> some spams (actually, mostly nigerian scams), but it's much less (~2/yr
> vs. gestimated 100/yr).  The database size shouldn't get too big since
> it's all short text, and I don't think a lot of people e-mail people 
> from
> the archives so it shouldn't produce much load on the system.
>
> Some other ways to reduce spams:
>
>   1. HTML munging with "&##;" codes.
>
>   2. Javascript munging.
>
>   3. Header flag set by the poster to ask the e-mail address be blocked
>      altogether (won't protect his/her e-mail address if quoted in a
>      reply, though.)
>
>   4. "Type the number sequence in an image below to reveal the real
>      e-mail address"...? =P
>
> Let me know if you need help coding any of this.  I can do a prilim
> assessment now and probably get to it in a few weeks.
>
> -Mark
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
>> We're hoping to one day soon mask e-mail addresses on all archived
>> mailing list posts on our website, and while discussing this during an
>> officer's meeting today, the subject of e-mail address masking on our
>> members page came up.  ( http://www.lugod.org/members/ )
>>
>>
>> We're 'munging' addresses so that they have "MAPS" ('spam' backwards) 
>> in
>> the domain name part of the address (e.g., "nbs at soMAPSnic.net"), but 
>> that
>> can be inconvenient for people who don't notice or forget, and simply
>> try to e-mail the bogus address. :^)
>>
>> None of the solutions we talked about seemed suitable, so we're 
>> wondering
>> what people here think.  Is it even worth changing?  Does the "MAPS" 
>> trick
>> seem to work (to prevent your addresses from being harvested)?
>>
>> Thx,
>>
>> -bill!
>
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