[vos-d] Forums integrated with mailing lists

Thu Oct 25 18:34:53 EDT 2007

Posted at: http://interreality.org/phorum/read.php?2,88,116#msg-116
Peter Amstutz wrote:

I finally got around to looking at the phorum code for encoding email addresses.

It turns out it actually makes a deliberate effort to foil spam harvesting bots by encoding the email as a series of HTML character entities.  Smart browsers handle it, dumb spam harvesters probably not -- if you take a look at the page source, you'll see the "mailto" link is actually:

&#118;&#111;&#115;&#45;&#100;&#64;&#105;&#110;&#116;&#101;&#114;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#108;&#105;&#116;&#121;&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;

If people really want, I can still modify it to obscure the email addresses further, but this seems to be pretty effective...