Premium account Joined: Dec 02 Points: 2640 Posts: 30
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.
Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 30796 Posts: 958
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 :-)
