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Email Harvesting

Due to some spam bot harvesting issues across all the blogs we have now implemented a simple harvesting deterrent. It isn't anything particularly complicated or amazing, but since it was taken care of in the core code it applied to all site instantly which is nice. So if you notice now anyone who has a link in the comments the email address still works in a mailto but has some alterations that prevent most bots from being able to work with the addresses. I didn't want to do anything that would hamper the ability to use email to bad, so after checking out a few different methods I went with the email alteration. The fix works with all existing addresses that have previously been entered into any of the sites.

Anyways just letting those who are blogging with me know...

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