#66 mail obfuscation

[Moses Stupka]

As discussed at
http://www.flexwiki.com/default.aspx/FlexWiki.WikiNewsle
tter :

but we certainly could add a behavior that would
turn "candera @ candera.s" (manually obfuscated here :-
) into "candera at candera dot sytes dot net" or
whatever else

Could be also useful for the e-mail entered while
editing ...

Moses

[Tim Smith]

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Anything that follows a normal pattern still allows for an
automated system to find email addresses. Manual
obfuscation provides a wide variety and would prevent these
types of pattern matches.

It is arguable that spammers won't bother going to that effort
when there is so much low lying fruit on the net. But it is an
obvious way for spam service providers to differenciate
themselves. It will happen if it hasn't already.