Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> Anyone who is posting a thread here, is also automatically adding his e-mail 
> address to his/her thread. 

Like Warp said, the address doesn't need to be valid. Check mine, it's a
fully working one, but scrambled to avoid spam (still easy for human to
resolve).

> 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.

Hmm, I couldn't find your email address as a valid one from the webpage.
Via newsreader I did, in Warps message.

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C45607c12%40news.povray.org%3E/

> 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"

The page does this (or at least someting does): "en [at] jam". Just to
note it's usually better to still make a difference between @ and .,
while aero[]pov[]zbxt[]net might be "@.." or ".@.", just for example.

> Of course, this is just a simple example. Other variants are possible. A 
> human can always correct the e-mail address if (s)he desires to send a 
> message directly to a person who posted here.

Yep. I'm paranoid enough to scramble my address before posting ;).

> Greetings,
> 
> Sven 
> 
> 


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