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By *im53 OP   Man
over a year ago

Boldon

what is it with people putting there e-mail and msn addys on profile

with some bits missing and replaced with stars *****

if they dont want you to call then why put it on

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By *iceguydaveMan
over a year ago

Monmouth

I may be wrong, but I think this is where the user has put this information on there, but the system (and it appears to be a relatively recent change) automatically blanks out a chunk of it.

It may be to save their emails from being harvested by bots that will then spam them with offers of penile extensions, viagra and (let me just check my inbox), oh yes, more viagra...

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By *resh freddieMan
over a year ago

Penistone

Its quire simple really. There are programs called bots that trawl the internet picking up email addresses from different areas. So it you have the @ and a .com or .co.uk it auto collects like a big combine harvester. You then get the "is your penis beg enough " email 1000's of times.

To be honest you have to be a be a little desperate to put your phone no and an mail address on anyway. Desperate isn't a good look for anyone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I may be wrong, but I think this is where the user has put this information on there, but the system (and it appears to be a relatively recent change) automatically blanks out a chunk of it.

It may be to save their emails from being harvested by bots that will then spam them with offers of penile extensions, viagra and (let me just check my inbox), oh yes, more viagra...

"

You'll probably find that the coding for this site looks for specific characters and acts when it finds them.

The @ sign is used almost exclusively for email addresses so it's easy to look for it and blank out anything that appears after it until a full stop is encountered. Then you code to look at the next three characters and if another full stop is encountered you blank that out too and then repeat the process until you encounter a space gap. Simples, see!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

your giving me a headache!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"your giving me a headache!!! "

you know the best cure for an headache

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"your giving me a headache!!!

you know the best cure for an headache "
nooooo whats that then?

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago


"your giving me a headache!!!

you know the best cure for an headache nooooo whats that then? "

Paracetamol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"your giving me a headache!!!

you know the best cure for an headache nooooo whats that then? "

paracetomal could help, but not as much fun as a dam good seeing too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"your giving me a headache!!!

you know the best cure for an headache nooooo whats that then?

Paracetamol "
mean!mean!mean!

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By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

We obfuscate email addresses on profiles to stop them being harvested by spammers (which has happened). This is to protect users.

We're looking at alternative solutions which will allow emails to be shown but still stop them being harvested.

Admin x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some swinger sites ban you from putting emails in your profile, maybe some think it's the same on FAB.

As someone mentioned, Bots trawl though sites collecting information, (Google does it for contents) spammers for increase your cock size...

I don't think FAB blocks emails on profiles, but they do advise against it...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We're looking at alternative solutions which will allow emails to be shown but still stop them being harvested.

Admin x"

what about the additional problem - that is, put up a fake profile, and then put in the email and phone number of somebody you don't like. A nice youngish female profile should result in your victim getting bombarded. If emails and numbers are to be allowed in profiles, I suggest they only be allowed in verified profiles.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Some swinger sites ban you from putting emails in your profile, maybe some think it's the same on FAB.

As someone mentioned, Bots trawl though sites collecting information, (Google does it for contents) spammers for increase your cock size...

I don't think FAB blocks emails on profiles, but they do advise against it..."

I stand corrected re script doing something to the email...Just mine was as it was when I joined... done my own edditing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It looks desperate to me to put an email address on your profile. Same with phone numbers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

eerrm ill be back in a min

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the latest version of spybot search and destroy helps with spammers etc .... it's free and we use it on both our pc and lappy as an addition to our regular anti virus debs xxx

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