paulrus Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I don't know if this has been covered or not. I use sneakemail to create individual email accounts for every forum and website I belong to. This way I can track whether or not a site is selling my email address when the spam rolls in. So far nobody has caused me to recieve spam except one - THIS SITE. Is this a case of a bot trolling this site for email addresses? I had basically gotten myself spam free, so I was really dissappointed to see spam coming from my OSC email address. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 did you ever post a liveshop or a contribution? those emailaddresses get picked up by bots... Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulrus Posted December 18, 2002 Author Share Posted December 18, 2002 Ah yes I did.... I translated some contributions to Japanese and posted them... That explains it! Thanks! Time to create a new sneakemail account for OSC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I always go for the _NOSPAM_ approach for that reason ;) osCommerce will not sell out to the spamming bastards. Not a doubt in my mind. "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGeek Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 For those of us who are less informed, what exactly is the _NOSPAM_ approach? I haven't lost my mind, I have it backed up on disk, somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 oh sorry... whenever you need to fill in an e-mail address you use something that humans can detect but Spambots (software that harvests e-mail addresses from webpages) can not. Or not as easy at least. The idea is you write: webgeek@yoursite.com as webgeek@_REMOVE_THIS_TO_MAIL_ME_yoursite.com I'm afraid there is not much more too it. ;) "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGeek Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 Oh, so webgeek@_REMOVE_THIS_TO_MAIL_ME_yoursite.com would get all my spam. I was confused as to what you meant by "code". I know you can hide e-mail addresses in Websites using JavaScript so I thought you were referring PHP code. Duh. Shows you how little I know! :oops: I haven't lost my mind, I have it backed up on disk, somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 code as in 'code'.. ehmm.. you know, code :) webgeek@_REMOVE_THIS_TO_MAIL_ME_yoursite.com would BOUNCE, as in 'return to sender' since the domain doesn't exist. Tha'ts why you should always add it AFTER the @. Any human that sees the address will know what to do but spambots will not. You can do it 'for real' with PHP which is prefered but not always possible as it needs to be implemented in the site where you leave your email address. With php is how the e-mail buttons on this forum work. You can mail eachother but you can not get the address directly. Shows you how little I know! No, it shows me you're a smart guy as you decided to ask about what you didn't knew. :xmas: "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald Ponce de Leon Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 osCommerce will not sell out to the spamming bastards. Not a doubt in my mind. How do you think we finance this whole gig? Prior when the new forums were online, there were thousands and thousands and thousands of user accounts that were signed up on the support site. The new forums has a separate user account system - the current statistics show 3260 user accounts. 3260 fresh email addresses :!: This means a lot of email addresses! I sell DVD sets full of email addresses to spammers - that guarantees the support site will stay online for a very long time, and I can finally purchase my fourth Ferrari sportscar. :D No. Seriously, we hide email addresses where possible. If you look at the support site the email addresses are encoded in some gibberish which is still compatible to browsers (view the html source) - and the messaging system on the forums works through the forum only, so email addresses are not shown when someone wants to email you (unless you posted it in a message). We also have no control over what people put in their contribution descriptions. , osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebGeek Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 And here I was thinking that os Commerce was actually "available for free as an open source based solution". Silly me. :sigh: Seriously though, if you could show me how to "do it 'for real' with PHP", I would be very appreciative. I haven't lost my mind, I have it backed up on disk, somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 the idea is simple. You use a form. So instead of calling a <a href="mailto:webgeek@address.com">Email WebGeek</a> you use <a href="mailto.php">Email WebGeek</a> and here's the source of mailto.php <?php header("Location: mailto:webgeek@address.com"); ?> "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Oh, if you want to make it dynamic split up the e-mai address before you add it to the mailto.php url: mailto.php?foo=webgeek&bar=address&foobar=com and construct it again in mailto.php $address = $foo . '@' . $bar . $foobar; "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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