Just curious...
If I have a site that stores information about people in a database,
including e-mail addresses, and that information is only viewable when
called via a user-specific variable, i.e. their alias, can spambots
still harvest those e-mail addresses?
So for instance I have a page
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:10:35AM -0800, Jason Soza wrote:
users.php?alias=johnsmith - I guess my main question is, can spambots
follow those types of links, get the resulting page, and harvest the
address off that?
No reason why not.
Is there any way to combat this? Any PHP scripts,
On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 6:10:35 PM, you wrote:
If I have a site that stores information about people in a database,
including e-mail addresses, and that information is only viewable when
called via a user-specific variable, i.e. their alias, can spambots
still harvest those e-mail
Analysis Solutions wrote:
If you don't need the address to be hyperlinkable, you can put the user, @
and domain in different table cells. Or even put each letter in a
separate cell. Could even set the border, cellspacing and cellpadding to
0 to make it not look like a table.
Assuming
, but I'm assuming it's more secure than
just keeping a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] link around.
Thanks,
Jason Soza
- Original Message -
From: Stuart Dallas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:23 am
Subject: Re: [PHP] Spam Bots/E-mail Addys
Basic fact: If a normal (anonymous
On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 6:24:17 PM, you wrote:
Analysis Solutions wrote:
If you don't need the address to be hyperlinkable, you can put the user,
and domain in different table cells. Or even put each letter in a
separate cell. Could even set the border, cellspacing and cellpadding
On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 6:30:11 PM, you wrote:
So basically, to keep the address away from bots, keep it away from
normal users. Okay, so something like this would be more effective:
Have a form with a hidden input of the user's alias, and an input of E-
mail me!, that form posts to an
I remember a how to on this from linuxsecurity about 6 months ago-- try
a search there. justin
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Dallas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:24 AM
To: Jason Soza
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Spam Bots/E-mail Addys
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