AppDB email address obfuscation

[n0dalus]

Hi,

I am concerned that the email addresses on the appdb are too easily
harvestable. Is there a reason no effort seems to be made to hide the
email addresses of users on there?

Also, when getting a notification of a post, you can see everyone's
email addresses in the To: field. Should these be Bcc?

Just curious,
n0dalus.

[Karl Lattimer]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:29 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am concerned that the email addresses on the appdb are too easily
> harvestable. Is there a reason no effort seems to be made to hide the
> email addresses of users on there?

Yeah it would be nice if my email address was hidden, I get emails in
various languages and from complete oinks who ask for a crack for dw8.

Tis a little annoying. Even if it were obfuscated I recon it would stump
a large number of the id10t's that email me.

K,
> Also, when getting a notification of a post, you can see everyone's
> email addresses in the To: field. Should these be Bcc?
>
> Just curious,
> n0dalus.

[Jeremy Newman]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:29 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> I am concerned that the email addresses on the appdb are too easily
> harvestable. Is there a reason no effort seems to be made to hide the
> email addresses of users on there?

Probably the best thing to do is to set it up so the email addresses are
only visible if you are logged in. This way, bots which are never logged
in will not see them.