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    Default Obscure e-mail addresses if you aren't registered

    How about when a non-registered user views anything in [email] tags, it shows up as (Please log in to view e-mail addresses) or something? That way, spam-bots would be unable to get people's addresses if posted, since all e-mail automatically gets put in those tags.
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    Default Re: Obscure e-mail addresses if you aren't registered

    Not really, bots don't read the page we see, they read the code that's in it.

    If you right click this, or any other webpage and choose view source, you can see the codes...
    Abandon all hope.

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    Default Re: Obscure e-mail addresses if you aren't registered

    Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir
    Not really, bots don't read the page we see, they read the code that's in it.

    If you right click this, or any other webpage and choose view source, you can see the codes...
    I know that. I'm suggesting that a check be made in the PHP as to whether the user gets the address at all.
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    Default Re: Obscure e-mail addresses if you aren't registered

    Hmm, interesting. Like with the new quotation function, we'd probably need two options: one for public display (as now) and another for logged in Members only, as some Members would want their email address to be displayed to unregistered/logged out Members. I suppose you could add others, depending on Membership level, e.g. display for Staff only.
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