Closed
Bug 256920
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters
Categories
(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)
Bugzilla
User Interface
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 120030
People
(Reporter: mozbug1, Assigned: myk)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 At the ftc spam confrence (see url) it was mentioned that one way to fool email harvesters was to replace the @ sign with @ in email addresses in web page. This is a pretty cheap way to confuse the spam harvesters. Obviously if enough people do this the authors of the harvesters will catch on, but there is no harm this can do. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
we already do this for normal stuff. and there's a bug for the abnormal stuff. besides once a big group suggests such a standard, the harvesters will adopt it.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
My apologies, I should have checked. When was this done?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
See Bug 120030 and bug 215439. I find @ better. :-)
Updated•20 years ago
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Summary: RFE: replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters → replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters
Updated•19 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Comment 4•19 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120030 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Updated•12 years ago
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QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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