Template talk:User E-mail

Umm... ohh... Uh.. It is a little dangerous to put someone's email formatted normally. So an email like example@example.com would be bad. Spambots search for email addresses like this to add it to spamming lists. The way to do it to fool the spambots and still have it so humans can understand it is: example[at]example[dot]com. Of course, having your email displayed doesn't mean that a spambot will catch it and spam you right away. Just that it could. And those spam lists are typically the ones that will not stop spamming you. No matter what you try. Short of getting a new email address. 05:43, December 26, 2008 (UTC)


 * Would it be possible to have a function within the template that will automatically detect a specific character and replace it with another string? (i.e. user types "blah@blah.com", the template detects the "@" and "." and replaces them with "[at]" and "[dot]" or something similar) 06:04, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That's a good point Matt, that I completely overlooked. What Ando said is good... if possible? 06:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. MediaWiki software isn't exactly JavaScript friendly. If you want it to use a script, it has to be through some extension. I'm fairly certain that we don't have one that can do it. 17:13, December 26, 2008 (UTC)


 * Should we put a note under the usage section of this userbox then, telling people to use [at] and [dot] to avoid possible SPAM attacks? 13:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)