UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support _removemefirst_

ive given up on the beta and am now trying the latest stable version, all seems ok except when i complete the import, all my members email addys look like this something@_removemefirst_somtehing.com

If found this line of code in the script
<pre>$spamemail = ereg_replace("\@", "\@_removemefirst_", $member[2]);</pre>

But if i cut out the _removemefirst bit, will it cause other problems, why is it doing this, anyone know?

It's doing this so that a spammer can't run through your board collecting the email addresses of your users. If they want to remove it they can do so via thier profile. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Honor The Victims

WEIRD...

What about all the users who input their Email addy because they want users to email them.

Im sure if a spammer knows what hes doing that anit gonna make any difference.

I figured it was primarily for protection against email-harvesting robots.

I doubt if a lot of thought was invested in that behavior. It was probably just a temporary way of having the import script put something in the U_Fakeemail columns, until a better idea came along.