MyBB Community Forums

Okay I just noticed the contact us link is a spambot magnet. All contact links on a forum should be replaced by a contact form with no visable email addresses as to not get spammed by all the bloodsucking spambots. I just set up a phpbb forum about a week ago with a brand new domain name and I saw in the error logs that a bot went right for register.php which is an IPB registration, not a phpBB. Then I saw a whole bunch of logs for sessions which didn't exist and some for accounts I already protected from guest view. I think if we spend all this time protecting our users, maybe we should spend 2 seconds and protect our own email addresses... Yes?

You can change the Contact Us link to a contact form script in the settings.

Yeah, and Zaher created a mod to handle this! http://forums.thetechex.net/showthread.php?tid=440

I unicode my contact us link and it's been very effective.

http://pagerank.info/email-encryptor.php

Enter the entire "mailto:you@domain.com" and you will see it encoded...enter that into the mybb admincp for the admin contact email.


Then check your contact us links in source code...it should be encoded and generally speaking spambots won't read it.