Nigerians want to give me money...

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by kerz » November 7th, 2002, 2:10 pm

Don't post an email, or tell us you don't want it posted. That's about all you can do. The email field isn't required on the submit article page.

Jason

Nigerians want to give me money...

by Slater » November 7th, 2002, 1:35 pm

So yesterday, 6th November, I submit an article (The one on newsgroup filtering). Thinking it was necessary to include my e-mail address, I entered mozillazine"at"slater.ch. It's a valid e-mail address. Today, my inbox has filled with 5 offers from a "bank manager" in Nigeria who's found $21 million in unclaimed money in an unmarked nigerian account; 3 ways to make a fast buck; 2 "naked lolita" websites, and one advertising all-natural herbal supplements should I wish to increase my bust size. All addressed to said e-mail address.

My question to the Mozillazine staff: How about protecting the e-mail address? There are various ways of doing this (either by scrambling it to a non-machine-readable form, re-writing the address to use ASCII codes that will render in a browser, but won't be picked up by site scrapers). Either that or don't make it a required field.

Yes yes, I know in my case it wasn't necessary to fill in an e-mail address, but still...

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