Hiding Comment E-mails From Harvesters
For the last recent months, I've been replacing the e-mail addresses of all who posted a comment without submitting a URL, with a forwarding address to protect their information from spam harvesters...
Well, it looks like I didn't even have to go through all that trouble since movabletype has a feature that disables the e-mail link for comments submitted without a URL. Duhhhh!
- Look in your MT "comment listing" and "individual archive" templates and find <MTComments>.
- Look in that section and you'll see:
<$MTCommentAuthorLink$> - Change that to:
<$MTCommentAuthorLink show_email="0"$> - Save and rebuild.
That's it. If someone posts a comment without a URL, instead of their name linked to their e-mail address, it won't be linked at all. (Of course, you'll be able to see their e-mail address from the admin area).
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Carmen,
I must have a different version of Moveable Type, as mine has
Might be useful to your readers,
Andy
Posted by: Andrew Peacock on May 28, 2004 01:46 AMOoops. That didn't come out well - should be
>$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$<
Posted by: Andrew Peacock on May 28, 2004 01:49 AM:-)
It's going to be one of those days.
3rd time lucky
<$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$>
Posted by: Andrew Peacock on May 28, 2004 01:50 AMHi Andrew,
You get an A+ for persistence :-)
You can use either... depends on your preference.
spam_protect="1" will modify the e-mail address to prevent spambots from eating them up.
For example, if the addy is "foo@bar.com", it will be modified to "foo@bar.com".
To never display the e-mail addresses at all, you can use spam_protect="0".
Posted by: Carmen on May 28, 2004 12:08 PMhttp://www.marketingchick.com/blog/mt-tb.cgi/50
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