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Encrypt email addreses in public profile to stop spam bots!
Encrypt email addreses in public profile to prevent spam bots steal my email addresses!
I’m happy but need to fix this!
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The best way to protect your email is to use the granular privacy settings on chi.mp. You can show it only to your contacts or some subset of them.
The problem with encoding and/or using the image instead of text is that your chi.mp profile is intended to be, in part, your personal information broker for the web. Sites you give permission to can access your information in a machine-readable format. Thus, your email is marked up with microformats that encoding would screw up.
I totally understand the problems with spam, so I would encourage you to put email behind the privacy level of your choice.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions or comments, your feedback is very important to us.
Laurel
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Inappropriate?I totally second this one. Please use something like: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder. My spam went from 1 or 2 a day to 10+ as soon as I created my domain. -
Inappropriate?It's so easy for chimp to implement such protection in their system. So everyone can show his email address on his .mp profile.
I’m expect an action!
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Inappropriate?I just posted my chimp email to the public and had forwarded it to my regular address. That way I can always change it and hope the spam stops.
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Inappropriate?You could also make the email an image instead of text (like on facebook)
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Inappropriate?The best way to protect your email is to use the granular privacy settings on chi.mp. You can show it only to your contacts or some subset of them.
The problem with encoding and/or using the image instead of text is that your chi.mp profile is intended to be, in part, your personal information broker for the web. Sites you give permission to can access your information in a machine-readable format. Thus, your email is marked up with microformats that encoding would screw up.
I totally understand the problems with spam, so I would encourage you to put email behind the privacy level of your choice.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions or comments, your feedback is very important to us.
Laurel
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What if you could implement reCaptcha (http://recaptcha.net/) Would this interfere with the OpenID feature you mention? Just wondering :n) -
However you might want to have non-contacts to be able to contact you, even if you set the privacy settings for your email address to 'Contacts only'.
Having non-contacts contact you could be done through a contact form, or by exposing your email address publicly (but encrypted). None of these options is currently available, which I think is a missed chance... -
I've put a contact form on the schedule for an upcoming release.
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Inappropriate?I agree that not obfuscating is not very good. A contact form is maybe a good replacement, but I would love to show my address details to people as well (but not to spam bots). Hope you guys find something good for this
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