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The CCSF Coders Club Website Project
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Remove contact emails from website to avoid scraping into spam lists #38

Open kmolo opened 7 years ago

kmolo commented 7 years ago

I think we should remove the contact emails from the website since these can be scraped into spam mailing list. Instead I recommend just directly folks to join the Google Group + attend the meetings.

Your thoughts? @possibly @akmartinez1 @jack-cole

possibly commented 7 years ago

@kmolo

I think I remember people emailing me about coders club stuff. I imagine they got my email from the website. So having at least one email address up there may be nice. You could also semi-encrypt the emails like so:

[firstname][lastname]1 [at] [gmail.com]

Basically, make the emails such that a human could put 1 and 1 together to deduce your email while also dodging spam bots.

Joining the Google Group requires a person to be accepted first, which might be tedious for someone looking for a quick answer or something.

jack-cole commented 7 years ago

I guess that might be an issue, but all the professors of the entire CCSF campus have their emails in the employee directory. On top of this, the website is most likely already archived and therefore the emails are impossible to remove from the internet.

The technique mentioned by @possibly is an old technique that is easy for bots to get around, too.