Toby wrote:
That's why somebody added a link to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] (at least on [[en:]]). Then they find the list of administrators. And they can't email mav, and they can't email Ilyanep ... but they can email me! (And on a few occasions, they have.)
Couldn't they still email me by using the "Email this user" link? AFAIK, any blocked IP can still log-in and use that feature. Is this also true for blocked user names?
I have a question for the techies: On the "Contact us" page on Wikibooks I have a live mailto link to textbook-l, but I have obscured the displayed email address like so:
[mailto:textbook-l@wikipedia.org textbook-l at wikipedia.org] (replace " at " with @)
Is this enough to prevent spam bots from sniffing the email address?
If so then I'll change my "email" link on the Admin page accordingly.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Couldn't they still email me by using the "Email this user" link? AFAIK, any blocked IP can still log-in and use that feature. Is this also true for blocked user names?
It's non-obvious how to do this. There isn't even an "email this user" link *at all* if you're not logged in, nor any hint that one would appear if you did.
I have a question for the techies: On the "Contact us" page on Wikibooks I have a live mailto link to textbook-l, but I have obscured the displayed email address like so:
[mailto:textbook-l@wikipedia.org textbook-l at wikipedia.org] (replace " at " with @)
Is this enough to prevent spam bots from sniffing the email address?
I expect not; that will put the live address directly into the link in the HTML, after all.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Couldn't they still email me by using the "Email this user" link? AFAIK, any blocked IP can still log-in and use that feature. Is this also true for blocked user names?
I thought that only people logged in /and/ with email addresses in the system could use this feature in the first place.
It's non-obvious how to do this. There isn't even an "email this user" link *at all* if you're not logged in, nor any hint that one would appear if you did.
I think that mav is referring to the "email" links that he and Ilyanep have on [[wp:en:Wikipedia:Administrators]]. These use [[Special:Emailuser]], while mine just gives an email address (for the reasons in my previous paragraph).
-- Toby
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