mailto: ??? [message #734] |
Tue, 26 February 2002 02:57 |
seang
Messages: 5 Registered: February 2002 Location: Australia
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Hi there,
Don't know if this is a worth while suggestion or not....but you can decide.
spammers often use mailto: to harvest email addresses.....
maybe there is an alternative using a form email or masking the mailto???
Another possiblitly would to only show mailto when they are logged in.
Regards
Sean
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Re: mailto: ??? [message #735 is a reply to message #734] |
Tue, 26 February 2002 03:06 |
Ilia
Messages: 13241 Registered: January 2002
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seang wrote on Mon, 25 February 2002 9:57 PM | Hi there,
Don't know if this is a worth while suggestion or not....but you can decide.
spammers often use mailto: to harvest email addresses.....
maybe there is an alternative using a form email or masking the mailto???
Another possiblitly would to only show mailto when they are logged in.
Regards
Sean
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When a user registers they may select to "hide" their email address. If that is the case their email address is no longer being displayed on their profile page. Instead when a person clicks on the email link/button they are taken to a php form that allows the person to send an email to the forum members. To use the email feature a person MUST be a forum member.
FUDforum Core Developer
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Re: mailto: ??? [message #755 is a reply to message #738] |
Tue, 26 February 2002 20:22 |
ironstorm
Messages: 89 Registered: February 2002 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Another means of protecting email addresses is to a javascript function, something like:
Quote: | <a href="javascript:mymail('user','domain.com');">mail user</a>
or maybe <a href="#" onclick="javascript:mymail('user','domain.com');">mail user</a>
<script> function mymail (user, domain) { window.open(... "mailto:"+user+"@"+domain ...); } </script>
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