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spam protection for email entries in travel tip

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joe_schmidt Premium account Joined: Dec 02 Points: 2664 Posts: 32 Posted: 2007-11-18 12:30:00    Curently globo accepts only correct email addresses. But the travel tip pages can be listed by the common search engines and therefore easily scanned by bots for emails to spam to. My proposal is a kind of coding that we can publish email addresses without feeling to be potential spam supporters. What do you all think about that? ciao, Joe --- ciao, Joe Reply    Reply with quote    Contact joe_schmidt   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2007-11-18 14:12:00    Perfect idea! --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2007-11-19 07:49:00    Good thinking Joe but the email addresses we state in the tips are usually from the webpages of the places themselves! If protection became necessary, one way to protect against misuse is to use a tool that converts the email name from text into an image. A past trick was to inlude a space in the address and a note asking to remove the space when used but the "bots" have already discovered that! My own solution and suggestion is to add a number in front of the address, say 88, and an IMAGE of a note to human users to delete the number when sending an email. The bot but sends the spam to a non-existant email-address :-) R'Rudi --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan