Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Anyone who is posting a thread here, is also automatically adding his e-mail 
> address to his/her thread. It would be fine if the e-mail address could be 
> altered by some server-side script (PHP or whatever) in order to prevent 
> that e-mail search engines of spammers can mis-use the e-mail addresses the 
> threads contain.
> 
> I am getting each month more than 1,000 (!) spam e-mails since I am posting 
> here! Not only caused by this website, but among other newsgroups websites I 
> am participating. But most alter the e-mail address of a participant to 
> something e-mail search engines cannot identify anymore as e-mail address.
> 
> An example: Such a server-side PHP script could use
> str_replace("@","[]",$Posting)
> and
> str_replace(".","[]",$Posting)
> to make the e-mail addresses unusable for those spammers. Such a modified 
> e-mail address would then look like that:
> "Sven[]yahoo[]com"

email addresses in the web view are obfuscated.

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