# Email spam

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065 "2005-12-15T12:59:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065/1 "2005-12-15T12:59:16Z")

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I’ve just registered with the forum and am a little concerned that my  
email address is unencoded in the HTML source for all spam crawlers to  
see. There also seems to be no way for me to modify it to include “(at)  
gmail (dot) com” etc.

I see at the bottom of the page there is “ruby-forum (at) andreas-s  
(dot) net”. Don’t the humble forum users get the same chance to stay off  
the spam lists?

Can I get my email changed manually by someone? “julian (dot) gall (at)  
gmail (dot) com” would do nicely 🙂 Thank you.

Julian

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**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065/2 "2005-12-15T13:54:53Z")

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Julian G. wrote:

> I’ve just registered with the forum and am a little concerned that my  
> email address is unencoded in the HTML source for all spam crawlers to  
> see.

The email address is only shown to registered users. But the spam  
crawlers can get your email address from one of the dozen mirrors and  
archives of the mailing lists that your posts are forwarded to anyway,  
so it wouldn’t matter.

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**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065/3 "2005-12-15T18:41:33Z")

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Andreas S. wrote:

> Julian G. wrote:
> 
> > I’ve just registered with the forum and am a little concerned that my  
> > email address is unencoded in the HTML source for all spam crawlers to  
> > see.
> 
> The email address is only shown to registered users. But the spam  
> crawlers can get your email address from one of the dozen mirrors and  
> archives of the mailing lists that your posts are forwarded to anyway,  
> so it wouldn’t matter.

OK. I hadn’t realised you had to log in to see the address. But are you  
saying the posts get sent to archives and mirrors with the email address  
included?

Julian

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**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-spam/66065/4 "2005-12-15T18:54:55Z")

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Julian G. wrote:

> Andreas S. wrote:
> 
> > Julian G. wrote:
> > 
> > > I’ve just registered with the forum and am a little concerned that my  
> > > email address is unencoded in the HTML source for all spam crawlers to  
> > > see.
> > 
> > The email address is only shown to registered users. But the spam  
> > crawlers can get your email address from one of the dozen mirrors and  
> > archives of the mailing lists that your posts are forwarded to anyway,  
> > so it wouldn’t matter.
> 
> OK. I hadn’t realised you had to log in to see the address. But are you  
> saying the posts get sent to archives and mirrors with the email address  
> included?

If you post to the Ruby or Rails forum, the posts will be forwarded to  
the mailing list.