Post Approval

[frangar]

Any idea why I could make one post but when I replied to another post on the thread it says I need approval?.....seems odd way to run a forum....and it was only about a stoppage!

[Chris Lowe]

One for @RichM to answer.

[1st ade]

The report of a stoppage included the contact email for CRT. The forum automatically needs approval for any post with an email address (it's designed [I think] to protect posters from spammers when they include a personal email in a post)

 

The CRT one (which I won't include or I'll have to approve my own post!) often trips posters up - understandably when you copy and paste a "news" item and it get's blocked.

 

@RichM - I don't suppose there is an "allow list" of emails that don't trigger the block - to be populated (sparingly) with one's such as the CRT address?

[Chris Lowe]

I'd never noticed that before

[1st ade]

1 hour ago, buccaneer66 said:

I'd never noticed that before

Test

Mickey@mouse.co[.]uk

 

The email triggered a "needs approval"

[RichM]

Will have a look to see if there is a bypass option.

 

We could turn off the feature though it's probably worth pointing out that it's not a good idea to post email addresses on a public forum. They will get harvested by bots and the recipient will likely receive spam as a result. It's not such a problem for companies/organisations with anti-spam systems in place, such as the CRT who route their email traffic through ProofPoint.

[Guest]

Or people could just post...

 

mickey.mouse(at)waltdisney.com    ?

 

Obiously when using the email replace (at) with @

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, M_JG said:

Or people could just post...

 

mickey.mouse(at)waltdisney.com    ?

 

Obiously when using the email replace (at) with @

And I assume that even before AI a spam harvesting bot could fathom out that one.

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, David Mack said:

And I assume that even before AI a spam harvesting bot could fathom out that one.

 

Not sure, never met one to ask.

 

 

But, all that said how does blocking a post stop it being harvested when it's subsequently approved?

[MtB]

56 minutes ago, David Mack said:

And I assume that even before AI a spam harvesting bot could fathom out that one.

 

But not necessarily a real person. 

 

(Possibly stupidly) on one of my web pages I have my email address included using the "(at)" format. I received a text from someone complaining that my email address must be wrong as emails kept bouncing.

 

The developing text convo established they had typed in my address exactly as per my web page, including using "(at)" instead of the "@" symbol. 

 

Humans eh?! 

 

 

[1st ade]

22 minutes ago, MtB said:

Humans eh?!

And the fundamental problem is Humans will always lag behind computers at the "simple" tasks - collect what looks like an email address and see if (at) makes more sense as @; or if removing the square brackets around my adrian[.]com makes it work better - computers are going to win...