# Emails are harvested by spammers **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Forum\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518 "2006-10-25T00:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/1 "2006-10-25T00:55:21Z")
I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide email addresses by default. ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/2 "2007-01-25T13:56:46Z")
Yes… I wanted to suggest this as well… this is very bad… I expected my address never to be shown, but they are … at least when somebody replies to my post… then it says David K. (david… @ [there.com](http://there.com)) wrote… (see?) baad. Carl J. wrote: > I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the > domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email > addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide > email addresses by default. ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/3 "2007-02-18T22:50:46Z")
Carl J. wrote: > I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the > domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email > addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide > email addresses by default. can somebody please install the hivelogic email enkoder > **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)** > > Dan Benjamin's personal website. that’s a rails plugin to encode email-adresses so spammers can’t harvest them. exactly what would be needed here. takes 10minutes to implement in Rforum. But it looks like we are on our own, since the last update on RForum was in 2005. see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/) ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/4 "2007-02-18T22:55:59Z")
Matthias T. wrote: > Carl J. wrote: > > > I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the > > domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email > > addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide > > email addresses by default. > > can somebody please install the hivelogic email enkoder > [Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/enkoder_plugin) > > that’s a rails plugin to encode email-adresses so spammers can’t harvest > them. exactly what would be needed here. takes 10minutes to implement in > Rforum. > But it looks like we are on our own, since the last update on RForum was > in 2005. > see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/) who is responsible for admin accounts? ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/5 "2007-02-18T23:01:09Z")
Xia \_\_ wrote: > who is responsible for admin accounts? Usually on rubyforge, the other admins can create a new admin. in this case [http://rubyforge.org/users/andreas/](http://rubyforge.org/users/andreas/) ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/6 "2007-02-07T03:54:41Z")
D. Krmpotic wrote: > Yes… I wanted to suggest this as well… this is very bad… I expected > my address never to be shown, but they are … at least when somebody > replies to my post… then it says David K. (david… @ > [there.com](http://there.com)) wrote… (see?) baad. > > Carl J. wrote: > > > I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the > > domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email > > addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide > > email addresses by default. not only nice, i’d say a basic human right to privacy… it’s triply crap that you can’t change your email either … ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/7 "2007-02-24T12:52:49Z")
Matthias T. wrote: > Carl J. wrote: > > > I use a unique email for almost every website (possible since I own the > > domain). I now know for a fact that spammers are harvesting email > > addresses from [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). It would be nice if rforum could hide > > email addresses by default. > > can somebody please install the hivelogic email enkoder > [Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/enkoder_plugin) > > that’s a rails plugin to encode email-adresses so spammers can’t harvest > them. exactly what would be needed here. takes 10minutes to implement in > Rforum. That wouldn’t solve anything. RForum DOES NOT display email addresses. Only if you post to a mailing list forum (like the Ruby forum) your email address will be in the From header, because that is how mailing lists work. > But it looks like we are on our own, since the last update on RForum was > in 2005. > see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/) No, see [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net). ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/8 "2007-05-02T16:20:48Z")
Matthias T. wrote: > Andreas S. wrote: > > > > can somebody please install the hivelogic email enkoder > > > [Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/enkoder_plugin) > > > […] snip > > > > That wouldn’t solve anything. RForum DOES NOT display email addresses. > > Only if you post to a mailing list forum (like the Ruby forum) your > > email address will be in the From header, because that is how mailing > > lists work. > > no offense, but this would solve something. if the message text gets > written out via javascript (the form enkoder) the whole spamming stuff > would stop. it’s not so hard to just push email-adresses through the > enkoder via regex, if you don’t want to encode the whole message body. > the fact is, that spam harvesting is happening here - and it could be > fixed. > > > > But it looks like we are on our own, since the last update on RForum was > > > in 2005. > > > see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/) > > > > No, see [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net) > > aha, thanks for the pointer. > when can we expect the next release on rubyforge? > > greets, > matthias Spammers are also using ruby-forum to send Revlon and Lubriderm free samples to all us lucky rails developers: [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_frm/thread/fe3d53474202d944/#](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_frm/thread/fe3d53474202d944/#) ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/9 "2007-06-18T18:49:36Z")
I registered yesterday (17/06/2007) at 18:22 and had received my first spam email by 15:43 today (18/06/2007) - a message from one Mr. Thompson Brown who will of course be receiving my bank account details asap. Receiving the spam surprised me given that I’m a member of a number of forums and have not even vaguely had this problem before. Reading this post, there’s mention of a “mailing list forum”. Could someone please confirm that posting to the Ruby area of forums ([http://www](http://www),[ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com)) does not result in the topic being sent to a mailing list. Thanks. Steph ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/10 "2007-02-26T10:04:19Z")
Andreas S. wrote: > > can somebody please install the hivelogic email enkoder > > [Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/enkoder_plugin) > > […] snip > > That wouldn’t solve anything. RForum DOES NOT display email addresses. > Only if you post to a mailing list forum (like the Ruby forum) your > email address will be in the From header, because that is how mailing > lists work. no offense, but this would solve something. if the message text gets written out via javascript (the form enkoder) the whole spamming stuff would stop. it’s not so hard to just push email-adresses through the enkoder via regex, if you don’t want to encode the whole message body. the fact is, that spam harvesting is happening here - and it could be fixed. > > But it looks like we are on our own, since the last update on RForum was > > in 2005. > > see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rforum/) > > No, see [http://rforum.andreas-s.net](http://rforum.andreas-s.net) aha, thanks for the pointer. when can we expect the next release on rubyforge? greets, matthias ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/11 "2007-06-18T19:17:32Z")
Andreas S. wrote: > Stephan D. wrote: > > > Reading this post, there’s mention of a “mailing list forum”. Could > > someone please confirm that posting to the Ruby area of forums > > ([http://www](http://www),[ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com)) does not result in the topic being sent to a > > mailing list. > > It does, as you can see in the text above the reply/post form: > > "Please read before posting > > This forum is connected to a mailing list…" Oh yes. I remember that message. I assumed that my post could be read by thousands of people because I was posting it on a public forum. I did not assume that my email address would be given away to everyone. I’m clearly not the only one either. In my opinion the admins need to make it very very clear, before signup as well as before posting on a “mailing list forum”. ---
**Author:** ![cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cjnkns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cjnkns)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/emails-are-harvested-by-spammers/73518/12 "2007-06-18T18:58:01Z")
Stephan D. wrote: > Reading this post, there’s mention of a “mailing list forum”. Could > someone please confirm that posting to the Ruby area of forums > ([http://www](http://www),[ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com)) does not result in the topic being sent to a > mailing list. It does, as you can see in the text above the reply/post form: "Please read before posting This forum is connected to a mailing list…"