On 09/20/2013 08:02 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
Last year I was playing around with django forms and wrote some code that required the user to add some numbers before the form was submitted. Here is the article: http://www.joelgoldstick.com/blog/2012/sep/30/django-forms/ This isn't exactly what you are asking, but it does give you a change to let someone send you mail without giving out your email address.
Still interesting. Anything to fight spam. I was thinking more about when your e-mail address is out there (in mailing lists, for example).
Some lists do the effort to at least do the (dot) and (at) kung fu to hide your address to a certain degree. Others just put it as a low-hanging fruit, in ole' plain text, ready to harvest.
I joined my e-mail address in the code comment, that's why I was thinking that way.
With the onslaught of social media stuff, it feels like sites like linked in and anything that uses gmail want to get you to give away your email address, and perhaps give access to everyone in your lists. So, I'm suggesting its really a loosing battle.
You don't say! There's a Firefox add-on called "Collusion" that shows how websites exchange your data between them and let me tell you: It's not reassuring.
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