Re: comment poster privacy issue?
Igor Leturia <[email protected]>
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Frank Scholz wrote: Hi, I just found out by accident, that if a comment is posted with an email address, but _without_ an url, the authors name is linked to its email address. In comment_body there is if url make link with url elseif email make link with email else print author I just removed the email part, as I think an annotators email should never be exposed to the public as a possible aim of a address harvester. What do you think about this? I completely agree with you, nowadays a website should never show anybody's e-mail address, as it leaves it exposed to spammers. I have a 'clean' e-mail account, and I would not be very happy if someday I started receiving spam and found out that it was because I posted a comment to a blog made in Coreblog and it showed my mail address... An easy solution is to do what you have done, removing the email part form the comment_body dtml. But that has two disadvantages, in my opinion: - The other readers of the blog have no way to contact with the person who posted the comment - What's the point of asking the poster to enter his e-mail address, if it's not going to be used at all? In my blog I have developped a solution for that, which combines a contact form and the e-mail address' encryption/decryption. You can see it in http://www.eibar.org/blogak/e-gorblog , sorry if you don't understand it, it is in Basque language. Anyway, try and go to a post's comments, find one whose author is not linked to an url of his own, but an strange one in my blog, and click on it to see the contact form. Please don't send anything to the comment poster, believe me if I tell you that it sends an e-mail. If anyone is interested in this solution, tell me and I'll send it to him gladly, or I can send it to the list if many people is interested. It is published in my blog, but as I said, it is in Basque, so I don't think many people will understand it... ------------------------------------------------------ Igor Leturia Azkarate Elhuyar I+G+B Zelai Haundi kalea, 3 Osinalde industrialdea 20170 Usurbil (+34) 943 36 30 40 [email protected] / www.elhuyar.org _______________________________________________ COREblog-en mailing list COREblog-en-/9qXvnWia/9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] http://postaria.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coreblog-en Unsubscription writing to coreblog-en-leave-/9qXvnWia/9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]