Email obfuscation detection
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Email obfuscation detection
I'd like to be able detect people trying to save email addresses in a particular field, both obfuscated (i.e. user_NOSPAM [AT] example (DOT) com ) and plain text, since I don't want them to be able to put any form of email address in this field. Now I've grabbed the list of TLDs from iana.org, and built a small function with a for loop that does quite a lot of stripos string searches for things like '[dot]'.$tld, etc. But I was curious if anyone has run across such a function that is more exhaustive and proven to work. I realize this will not be infallible, but I want to put up some sort of guard against this. Thanks.
Re: Email obfuscation detection
Good luck. Human beings are exceedingly efficient at creating languages. You should write an inclusive filter, not an exclusive filter. By the way, you've received a collect call from "bob wehadababyitsaboy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flP-o0ydkvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flP-o0ydkvo