spam on vbulltin boards

[Nam]

Does vbulletin has any kind of protection of email posting inside posts to prevent spam "bots". I'm concern about my members' emails that being haversted by those kind of software, but I hope that vbulletin has some code inside to prevent it. Is it true?

[tubedogg]

If you have the secure email form turned on then yes.

[Nam]

If you have the secure email form turned on then yes.I know about secure form mail, I'm talking about intentionally listing email for other members to contact. For example, when I list this line of email myemail@abc.com, would it safe?

[Darth Cow]

Hmm... simple replacement of emails with some sort of JavaScript document.write() call would take care of this easilly. Probably wouldn't be too hard to hack, either. It's not a standard feature, though.

[Brad.loo]

Hmm... simple replacement of emails with some sort of JavaScript document.write() call would take care of this easilly. Probably wouldn't be too hard to hack, either. It's not a standard feature, though.
Already a hack in vB 2, check the beta forums at vBulletin.org, it is under some werid name.

[Nam]

Why would I want to find a hack for vb2, when I'm using vb3 right now :confused:

[cirisme]

You can't hack vb3 through vb.org till RC1 ;)

[Dean C]

Already a hack in vB 2, check the beta forums at vBulletin.org, it is under some werid name.
It's in the template modifications forum :)

[Nam]

Seems like the forum has been down in the past few days, I coudln't go in.

Anyway, the obvious example is Webhostingtalk.com. In the Offer forum, the host list their emails for other to contact him/her. And I'm not sure if it's safe or not, however, I think it should be pre-built in, not a hack because in any busy forum, people will always list their email like that in the post.