Everything is stored in the database as plain text, and everything
goes out to all of the e-mail subscribers as untrammeled text, just
as written. Remember, this Web “forum” is really just another
subscriber to the list, and it gets the messages at the same time as
the rest of the list, and then starts picking through them looking
for Markdown to convert or e-mail addresses to hide. But this all
happens on the fly, as you look at the page.
I like the idea of "log in to see e-mail address’ very much. You’re
right, it would make the connection for people.
As far as obfuscating the addresses with JavaScript or entity
replacement, yes, that’s possible, but again, you would have to be a
real human and logged in in order to see the live address anyway –
we’re pretty well kinked against 'bots here.
I could probably add the fly-out bit, I’ll have to think about that.
Walter
On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Weaver wrote:
Hey now…I thought USER@DOMAIN wasn’t too bad as a simple
obfuscation technique : )
Sorry, I forget that ‘user’ profiles are only accessible while
logged-in. Even my ‘contact info’ under my profile was similarly
contorted (now fixed into a proper email link).
Is the message text irrevocably altered with this email trap
routine before stored/remailed; or is the alteration on-the-fly as
the threads are displayed and the message stored unaltered?
Would it be possible to alter the email hiding routine to change
the appearance to something like: ‘Log-in to see address’, instead
of changing it to ‘email@hidden’ (…And then only make them
visible via JS/entities/or some other browser-centric method?..)
I am one that needs constant reminders about little features like
this, and seeing the above direction would always remind me that
addresses are only visible to subscribers. Perhaps a conspicuous
note with the ‘Reply to this thread’ box about such protections and
alterations.
While we’re on the topic, could the header of each message on the
web (that currently includes the users name and the date), also
include a small fly-out with the content of the user’s ‘contact info’?
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