[RESOLVED] Email adress in my profile.

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Nanor

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I've noticed in my profile it give my actual email adress under my MSN name, although I want to keep this, to prevent spamming, could it be changed to rocuinn AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk? etc?
 

PsiSoldier

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

IIRC there's an option that toggles whether they're displayed or not.
 
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Fi$hy

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

He's not worried about Humans,

it's the bots looking for email addresses
 

KillCrazy

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

As far as I'm aware you can change it to whatever you want. If you don't want your email to be displayed at all then leave the MSN name field blank, otherwise change it to anything you desire.
 
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Fi$hy

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

Basically, Nanor doesn't mind a human finding his email address

But he is worried about "Computer controlled scripts" (Bots) trawlling the internet and adding his email to a list for "Free win win viagra super cheap"

So he wants a way of making his email recognisable to a human, but confusing the hell out of a computer
 

Ronin Storm

Administrator
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Re: Email adress in my profile.

As KillCrazy says, that field's output is totally under your control. There no system-based reason why the address you put in that field is type-accurate so feel free to obfuscate as you see fit.

An aside to this, however: this board's current configuration denies access to profile pages for Guest users. That's clearly not always the case on all boards and mistakes on permissions can unfortunately easily occur... the only email address that must be type-accurate is your registration address.
 

PsiSoldier

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

Fishy, where did anyone say about who he wants to view it?
You're really confusing me. :S
 
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Fi$hy

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Re: Email adress in my profile.

Naynor said:
although I want to keep this, to prevent spamming, could it be changed

Email Spamming?
 
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