As promised recently I just finished adding a feature to the update profile page. You can now choose to hide your email address from others by checking the box shown circled below... Let me know if you have any issues using this, thanks everyone!
Hide Your Email Address From View
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sudsmaster
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Thanks so much for that enhancement.
It's not that I mind the membership knowing my email address, it's the spam.
I've had to disguise my email address before this, due to the spammers that cruise the membership files. Now I can put it back to the exact address.
It's not that I mind the membership knowing my email address, it's the spam.
I've had to disguise my email address before this, due to the spammers that cruise the membership files. Now I can put it back to the exact address.
turquoisedude
Well-known member
Nice enhancement! As always, Robert, thank you for all your time and effort that put into improving the site for us!!
lavamat_jon
Well-known member
Hi Robert,
Just a quick (probably blonde) question - if you have hidden the email from view, is the email address still visible to other members, or is it hidden completely?
Thanks for all your work,
Jon
Just a quick (probably blonde) question - if you have hidden the email from view, is the email address still visible to other members, or is it hidden completely?
Thanks for all your work,
Jon
brianl
Well-known member
Perhaps another option?
Or perhaps an option that it could be hidden from non-members of the site? Even something like Craigslist where one could click on a button to send an e-mail, but the address would never be known to him unless the member wishes them too?
Or perhaps an option that it could be hidden from non-members of the site? Even something like Craigslist where one could click on a button to send an e-mail, but the address would never be known to him unless the member wishes them too?
is the email address still visible to other members, or is it hidden completely?
Nope, its hidden completely.
Nope, its hidden completely.
launderess
Well-known member
Thank You!
For this.
Don't mind the odd member or two (or three, or four, *LOL*)contacting me via email, but my address has been harvested by persons one has no idea whom they are, and one never hears from again after they obtain the information requested, or not as the case may be.
For this.
Don't mind the odd member or two (or three, or four, *LOL*)contacting me via email, but my address has been harvested by persons one has no idea whom they are, and one never hears from again after they obtain the information requested, or not as the case may be.
Just changed my mind...
OK I just changed to code to reflect the following:
1. You must be a member and be logged in to see another members email address in their profile.
2. If you check the hide email box, your email will be hidden from everyone, including other members.
This way now our email addresses will only be visible to other members if you choose to do so.
OK I just changed to code to reflect the following:
1. You must be a member and be logged in to see another members email address in their profile.
2. If you check the hide email box, your email will be hidden from everyone, including other members.
This way now our email addresses will only be visible to other members if you choose to do so.
austinado16
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I too use the altered email address to keep the web crawlers from harvesting and scam/spam/virus-ing me.
BTW Robert, nice work on the site with all the upgrades. Thanks for all the hours and thought you put into it.
BTW Robert, nice work on the site with all the upgrades. Thanks for all the hours and thought you put into it.
lordkenmore
Well-known member
I have also used altered web addresses. The problem is that I'm not sure how much longer that trick will work. So many of the standard approaches are predictable. ("[email protected]" or "person (at) email (dot) com") Sooner or later, the e-mail address harvesting software will take these modifications into account.
Ah, that makes me pine for the old days of real mail, when you didn't get 6 dozen offers for various drugs or medical "procedures." Which reminds me--I've got to go and empty my mail box of the current round of ads for grocery store ads, ads from a cable TV company that doesn't serve this street, and charities I've never heard of before whining for money.
HMMM, maybe the old days of regular mail weren't so great after all!
Ah, that makes me pine for the old days of real mail, when you didn't get 6 dozen offers for various drugs or medical "procedures." Which reminds me--I've got to go and empty my mail box of the current round of ads for grocery store ads, ads from a cable TV company that doesn't serve this street, and charities I've never heard of before whining for money.
HMMM, maybe the old days of regular mail weren't so great after all!
Considering that my e-mail address is contained in my profile on various other sites that are anything but G-rated and will only accept a properly formatted address, I'm surprised that I only receive the occasional spam message, and they are almost always appropriately identified and delivered into my spam folder.
These are generally "from" a female and have a one word subject like "Funny" or some such thing. Or the "from" is gibberish and the subject is about E.D. pills from Canada.
The ones that really annoy me are from Facebook, which has taken the liberty of mining my e-mail address from various members' contact lists and then falsely advises me that so-and-so has invited me to join, or is still waiting for me to join. Yeah, right. I'm not on Facebook and will never get sucked into that sort of invasion of my privacy.
These are generally "from" a female and have a one word subject like "Funny" or some such thing. Or the "from" is gibberish and the subject is about E.D. pills from Canada.
The ones that really annoy me are from Facebook, which has taken the liberty of mining my e-mail address from various members' contact lists and then falsely advises me that so-and-so has invited me to join, or is still waiting for me to join. Yeah, right. I'm not on Facebook and will never get sucked into that sort of invasion of my privacy.
We already have members here with no name and now no email addresses. I am beginning to wonder if I am dealing with real people. I did not know that there were people here so much better and more important than those of us who posted our email address. Don't any of you have an alternate email address? I'm not afraid of displaying my email adress, but if there is not enough comradery and trust among the "members," I think I will hide mine, just to be almost as good as those elites in the club.
I have always used my public
email address. You have to pay REAL money to get my personal addresses!
And I must say for all the years here I have never gotten spammed through AW.org so we must be on a secure server OR
Robert has been up late at night all these years clearing my email traffic,THANK YOU! I'll cook dinner!
email address. You have to pay REAL money to get my personal addresses!
And I must say for all the years here I have never gotten spammed through AW.org so we must be on a secure server OR
Robert has been up late at night all these years clearing my email traffic,THANK YOU! I'll cook dinner!
Me either Tom. I've displayed my name and email address here for 10 years now and will continue to do so. With the exception of one spoofing incident that grabbed my password from yahoo mail (which had absolutely nothing to do with my email address posted in my profile here) I have had no issues what so ever with that email account.
mr_sparkle
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I love getting messages from the guys on here, and have made some real good friends on here - so I alwyas post mine.
Its great though that now its only visible ot members that are logged in, I was about to change it to hidden since I never knew before it was open to everyone, so THANKYOU so much for your hard work in changing the code.
Its great though that now its only visible ot members that are logged in, I was about to change it to hidden since I never knew before it was open to everyone, so THANKYOU so much for your hard work in changing the code.
sudsmaster
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Robert,
Could you please add a box on the user profile so that other members can send that user an email without knowing the email address? Like a little click box? That way the spammers and web crawlers would likely be defeated (they won't want to take the time to click on the box) but we can still email the other users without knowing their addresses.
Could you please add a box on the user profile so that other members can send that user an email without knowing the email address? Like a little click box? That way the spammers and web crawlers would likely be defeated (they won't want to take the time to click on the box) but we can still email the other users without knowing their addresses.
Could you please add a box on the user profile so that other members can send that user an email without knowing the email address?
I'm still confused. If they clicked on this new check-box, it launched their email program on their browser, but the to: field would have to be filled out with the users email address and that would no longer be hidden as the person sending the email would be able to see it.
Maybe I'm not interpreting what you are asking properly. Could you clarify?
I'm still confused. If they clicked on this new check-box, it launched their email program on their browser, but the to: field would have to be filled out with the users email address and that would no longer be hidden as the person sending the email would be able to see it.
Maybe I'm not interpreting what you are asking properly. Could you clarify?
sudsmaster
Well-known member
OIC.
Hmmm....
I guess the only way to do what I was asking would be to build what is probably a complex front end in the forum that would send the email to the other member as if it were coming from the website... the other member would then have the option of responding directly to the sender, thus revealing their email address. I *think* I've seen other sites use this technique to protect the identity of their members but still allow people to send them emails - one at a time.
But I could see how this could be a bother to program and maybe an even bigger bother to administer. So Never Mind ;-)
I guess I'm gonna take off the "hide my email" option on my profile. I do want other members to be able to email me, just not for spam. I don't mind other members knowing my email address. If spam recurs, I'll just cloak the email address as before.
Hmmm....
I guess the only way to do what I was asking would be to build what is probably a complex front end in the forum that would send the email to the other member as if it were coming from the website... the other member would then have the option of responding directly to the sender, thus revealing their email address. I *think* I've seen other sites use this technique to protect the identity of their members but still allow people to send them emails - one at a time.
But I could see how this could be a bother to program and maybe an even bigger bother to administer. So Never Mind ;-)
I guess I'm gonna take off the "hide my email" option on my profile. I do want other members to be able to email me, just not for spam. I don't mind other members knowing my email address. If spam recurs, I'll just cloak the email address as before.
Hi Rich, ahhh I see what you are saying now. I do like the idea in theory and it could certainly be done. I would have to write an entire email system into the code, that's probably around 20 hours of work at minimum, but its not out of the question work wise.
I'll think about it and put it down on the wish list for the autumn because it would be a nice feature to have.
I'll think about it and put it down on the wish list for the autumn because it would be a nice feature to have.
mattl
Well-known member
Robert, your time is more valuable than some odd spam email, I'd suggest you not bother with any additional code. Getting a free email address is very easy. If someone is so worried about getting some possible spam from this site, they can either hide their address or use a free one. That covers all eventualities.
The spam filters of today work so well that I never see any of the crap that used to come in unless I want to. I might check the spam file once every month or two but 99.9% of the time nothing goes in there that should not be there. I still filter my gfn.org address through gmail, very easy to do, but my gfn.org provider installed a very good filter a year or so ago and it does quite well. No one need ever see any spam anymore...
The spam filters of today work so well that I never see any of the crap that used to come in unless I want to. I might check the spam file once every month or two but 99.9% of the time nothing goes in there that should not be there. I still filter my gfn.org address through gmail, very easy to do, but my gfn.org provider installed a very good filter a year or so ago and it does quite well. No one need ever see any spam anymore...
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