Check your E-mail addy in your profile

[harsh]

I was looking at a post by notfred about location being changed to US Minor Outlying Islands and noticed my email had REMOVE in it
ie...sharsh01REMOVE@cox.net
So I decided to look at a couple of other users profiles and sure enough they had the same tag put into their email addy. Personally I don't think it is a big problem, just more of an irritation.

 

[Jason Clark]

Its to stop people steeling your email address programatically by reading in the page and then spamming you. Almost every forum today has it.

 

[harsh]

It still creates a problem when trying to use it to email someone by just clicking on their email addy. I just tried it on myself. I clicked the link in my profile to my home email addy. Sure enough, I received an undeliverable message.

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject:
Sent: 4/19/2004 9:36 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

sharsh01REMOVE@cox.net on 4/19/2004 9:37 AM
The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not report a specific reason. Check the address and try again. If it still fails, contact your system administrator.
<NAEANRFKMS04 #5.0.0 smtp;550 Invalid recipient: <sharsh01REMOVE@cox.net>>


Janon, I don't doubt that it may be in other forums, this is just the first time I have seen it. I still believe it will cause problems when people try to use the link to email fellow members. I have no problem when trying to institute security measures, but we now some functionality.