- Discussion
-
Does anyone find the same problem when you give someone an email address and it comes up with some link to a spam looking site?
Wondering if that is why it is difficult to get in contact with people through this site?
-
-
I think when you click the link you select the correct code and it directs you to the email address
-
-
Hi
Email addresses are masked in order to protect site users from spam bots that harvest websites for email addresses.
There is also a second reason they’re masked – in the unlikely event something were to happen to someone who arranged to meet another person through the site, the IP address of those who accessed that person’s email address would have been recorded, in theory allowing them to be traced.
As Laura correctly said, you can reveal the real email address by clicking the link.
So basically, email addresses are masked to protect site users, no other reason š- This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by Cormac.
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.