Re: Hiding email addresses from spammers on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:02:47 +0200, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> said:
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> > Non-reformatted email addresses should appear just nowhere in my
>> > view.
>>
>> They appear almost everywhere, though. Nothing is stopping spammers
>> from subscribing directly to mailing lists (there are some
>> indications that they do this).
>>
>> Frankly, the non-incidental cost of breaking all mailto: links and
>> all possibility of copying and pasting far outweighs the possible
>> benifits of blocking non-intelligent e-mail harvesting programs. [Not
>> to mention that address munging breaks bodies of messages and
signatures.>
> You don't need to break the mailto: links, you can simply replace by a
> http:// link without the email and have a mechanism (captcha or
> whatever) to get access to the real email...
We are now actively against blind contributors, then?
manoj
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