Last modified: 2007-08-23 21:20:53 UTC
When I posted my first bug here, My email address, (coastergeekperson04 (at) hotmail.com) was posted here, with the @ symbol. I feel very insecure about this information. I honestly don't care about my email being post to third parties, etc. but posting the @ symbol is what spambots detect. I often post my email in a format like coastergeekperson04 (at) hotmail.com or just coastergeekperson04(a)hotmail.com Something must be done to prevent spam.
Firstly, this is not MediaWiki's fault. It is BugZilla - please tell them about it, nothing can be done about it here. Secondly, if you use an e-mail provider with decent spam protection this shouldn't be an issue. Google springs to mind, but Yahoo and Hotmal both have reasonable spam protection. Also you could set up a throw away e-mail address that is filtered and only e-mails from the bugzilla daemon get let through.
Not INVALID. We do run this Bugzilla, the request was just misfiled. We could write a hack if we really cared, or find an existing one (e.g. Mozilla's Bugzilla doesn't have this issue). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148 ***
(In reply to comment #0) > When I posted my first bug here, My email address, (coastergeekperson04 (at) > hotmail.com) was posted here, with the @ symbol. I feel very insecure about > this information. > I honestly don't care about my email being post to third parties, etc. but > posting the @ symbol is what spambots detect. I often post my email in a format > like coastergeekperson04 (at) hotmail.com or just > coastergeekperson04(a)hotmail.com > Something must be done to prevent spam. > (Mid-air collision) This is the Mozilla Bugzilla software (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org), it's not MediaWiki or Wikimedia's decision/fault on the way your e-mail address looks. Just change your e-mail address or don't use it. However, please be aware that I've commented on a lot of bugs for a long period of time and have never gotten spam because of it.
Simetrical, Mozilla's bugzilla does the same as ours -- it lists email addresses all over the page, always using @ instead of literal @ as some sort of basic anti-spambot measure. (Who knows if that's still effective. :)
Hmm, you're right, I was hallucinating.
