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protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18053]

Mon, 03 May 2004 21:33

alban

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The emails of users appear in pages User Info. I don't want them to be shown because spam bots can collect them...

Instead of "user(at)server(dot)com" I want something like "user at server dot com", for example.

I import all the 977 messages from a mailman MBOX. There is a lot of users. So I don't want to do it manually for each message.

Any idea?

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Re: protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18056 is a reply to message #18053]

Tue, 04 May 2004 15:27

lahoo

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You can make profiles invisible to other than registered users. Is that a solution?

[Updated on: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:03]

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Re: protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18068 is a reply to message #18056]

Wed, 05 May 2004 12:35

Ilia

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Disabling of profile view by anon users will in fact solve the problem. The alternative that the "display email" option is set to NO for all those users.

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Re: protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18077 is a reply to message #18053]

Wed, 05 May 2004 19:07

alban

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Thank you, I didn't see this option.

Meanwhile, I modify the source of theme/default/usrinfo.php in order to add nospam like this: "nospam(dot)user(at)server(dot)org(dot)nospam".

Your solution is better.

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Re: protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18078 is a reply to message #18053]

Wed, 05 May 2004 20:39

lahoo

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I don't think adding "nospam.[address].nospam" will be of any use. If spambots are clever they will interprete such simple schemes and sniff the address anyhow. That would be the way I'd implement it so I suppose others already has done it.

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Re: protect users against spam bots collecting emails [message #18079 is a reply to message #18077]

Wed, 05 May 2004 20:42

lahoo

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My answer ( http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=tree&th=3747&mid=18078&ri d=1511&rev=&reveal=) ended up being posted as a reply to my own message so I give you this hint in the case you subscribed to replies to your message.

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