Bob_K Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Currently the member list can be scanned by any spambot. These bots scan pages for email addresses. I'm currently moving my web page and email accounts to a new server and found some mailboxes had email in them even though they were not actively being used. The only way these were found was by spam bots reading the links on the pages. My site isn't even listed with search engines but these address were still found. I have a number of email addresses including one that I only use on my own discussion forum. That email address has never had any spam 2+ years. One of my others (the one I use here) gets 15-20 spam emails a day. This of course made me wonder about all of the spam I've been getting lately so I did a search on my email address to see if it was easily found and one of the search results was my profile on this site. I don't know how hard it would be to hide the membership list from users who are not logged on but it on my board (phpBB) it was a pretty simple MOD. If a user wants to view the Memberlist it does a quick check to see if they are logged on, if they aren't they are redirected to the login page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryddler Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 There's a checkbox on your profile to hide your email from the public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob_K Posted April 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Good point. I'll turn that on, but the problem with this option is that it hides it from other members of this board. I don't necessarily want to hide my email from other members, just from people or bots scanning the web for email addresses to spam. On my boards it was a pretty simple mod to change the member list page to check and see if the user if logged on if not it redirects them to the login page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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