QRZ acts against spammers

The QRZ.com website has introduced new measures to prevent its users' e-mail addresses from being harvested by spammers and their robot programs.

Up until now, the solution to this problem has been to display the address as a graphic image instead of plain text. While this works reasonably well to stop spammers, it also caused problems for many of our vision impaired.

Wanting to serve all of its users, the website has now installed new javascript browser code that leaves the email encoded on the page until the user initiates a mouse action to display the address. The address displayed is in plain text, and is clickable to make sending off to other members e-mails easier.

But as a safeguard against spammers QRZ has also installed code that will only enable the display of e-mail addresses only to other ham members of QRZ. In other words, you can see all the other information simply by doing a search but to see an e-mail address you must first log in.

The managers of QRZ.com want to thank Jeff Iddings, W4GPL, for some great suggestions that helped develop this solution.

Source: ARNewsline, QRZ