ID: 36768
Updated by: [email protected]
Reported By: phpbug at chipple dot net
-Status: Open
+Status: Wont fix
Bug Type: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
New Comment:
This is still the unwritten standard for plain-text email obfuscation,
so at this time the issue won't be fixed.
Previous Comments:
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[2006-03-17 08:13:50] phpbug at chipple dot net
Description:
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The way email addresses are currently obfuscated in the documentation
and on bugs.php.net makes it easy for spammers to harvest them just by
sending queries to Google.
For example, the Google search queries:
"* at * dot *" site:php.net
"* at * dot * dot *" site:php.net
match tons of email addresses, and Google even makes it easy to parse
them out since they're highlighted in bold in the results.
It would be a good thing if the php.net site would obfuscate users'
email addresses in a non-Googleable manner such as removing spaces
around "at" and "dot" (e.g. bugsATphpDOTnet) or similar.
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