Closed Bug 256920 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters

Categories

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
User Interface
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
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:
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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. :-)
Summary: RFE: replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters → replace @ sign with @ to confuse spam harvesters
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120030 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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