UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development Addons and Modifications Protect users emails

A simple thing you can do to help prevent spammers from harvesting emails from your forum is to use the "active text" feature to replace the "at" sign with a small .gif image of the "at" sign:

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This will not work with the email UBB code unfortunately, but a lot of my users will just put email addresses directly into a post and this will render it unusable by the spam bots.

Good idea Basil

Thanks. Unfortunately it only works if they type in the email directly in the post. If they use the email function (button) then it doesn't work.