I have created a php feedback form on a web page (using the freeway action) which today when someone responded to the person the feedback had two extra “to-addresses” in addition to the correct one. The correct address: email@hidden. And the two mysterious ones: email@hidden and email@hidden. Another strange thing is that her last name has never been shown anywhere on the site. I would be grateful for any suggestions to what is happening. If it can be of any help the web page with the form is Champagne O'Clock
LastName, FirstName email(a)domain.com
or
FirstName Lastname email(a)domain.com
or some combination like that
…that would explain it precisely. When entering the “to” address,
only use the bare e-mail portion of the address, not any actual proper
nouns.
Walter
On Jan 15, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Jon wrote:
I have created a php feedback form on a web page (using the freeway
action) which today when someone responded to the person the
feedback had two extra “to-addresses” in addition to the correct
one. The correct address: email@hidden. And the two
mysterious ones: email@hidden and email@hidden
. Another strange thing is that her last name has never been shown
anywhere on the site. I would be grateful for any suggestions to
what is happening. If it can be of any help the web page with the
form is Champagne O'Clock
This forum view of the mailing list (which I wrote) has a filter in
place to mask e-mail addresses from public view. Anything that looks
like an e-mail (and this isn’t perfect – sometimes it gets tripped by
code examples) will be converted to email@hidden.
If you ever need to show a FAKE e-mail address on this system, simply
replace the ampersand with a parenthesis containing the lower-case
letter a. This specific combination will be converted into an @ sign
by the filter after the masking algorithm has already run, restoring
the address to working shape.
PLEASE DON’T use this hack to post your own actual e-mail address,
unless you are in the market for pharmaceuticals or dodgy financial
deals with Nigerian dictators’ wives.
The Web view of this mailing list is excruciatingly public, and Google
indexes it seemingly every 10 minutes. Your e-mail address will be in
the (virtual) hands of the SPAMbots in just about as few minutes.
The mailing list itself is members-only and as private as any other e-
mail (i.e., about as private as a postcard). If you do want to share
your e-mail address with other members on the Web system, then simply
edit your profile (click My Account at the bottom of the navigation)
and add your e-mail address there. Only other members can see this
profile, which they can get to by clicking on your name in the top-
left corner of any post you make to the list (as seen on the Web). E-
mail subscribers to the list can naturally see your address every time
you post anyway, because the filter doesn’t apply to the content of e-
mails, only the Web view of them.
Walter
On Jan 15, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Earlier I looked and looked in the action and the recipient fill in box just showed the email address but her full name was of course hidden as the box couldn’t accommodate everything.
So it was no sinister spam bot plan to catch me off guard. Great!