Fighting the war on spam!
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:28 pm
Group,
I apologize for not realizing this sooner and nipping it in the butt, but spam bots crawl this site everyday looking for your email address to send junk to you. Our newest member pointed out that as soon as he registered that he started receiving spam so I figured they must be getting email address off this site as well as other places. So I put in a patch that will stop the problem. The way a robot works is that it looks for email addresses, more specifically the @ sign and the period (.). Then it grabs the email and puts it into it's database to send you spam. The way the patch works is that when a page is generated it replaces those two symbols with words (at) and (period). The script decodes it and displays it properly but a spambot is not able to decode it therefore it won't be able to grab your email anymore. Hopefully you noticed less spam or at the very least, no more than you are receiving now.
I apologize for not realizing this sooner and nipping it in the butt, but spam bots crawl this site everyday looking for your email address to send junk to you. Our newest member pointed out that as soon as he registered that he started receiving spam so I figured they must be getting email address off this site as well as other places. So I put in a patch that will stop the problem. The way a robot works is that it looks for email addresses, more specifically the @ sign and the period (.). Then it grabs the email and puts it into it's database to send you spam. The way the patch works is that when a page is generated it replaces those two symbols with words (at) and (period). The script decodes it and displays it properly but a spambot is not able to decode it therefore it won't be able to grab your email anymore. Hopefully you noticed less spam or at the very least, no more than you are receiving now.
