this would be too easy to get around, just like you can get around printing your email address on a page in a way that spambots can harvest it. I'd be really annoyed too if some form rejected my submission because it thought I'd put in an email address. Perhaps in these cases instead of informing the user, just inform the site administrator to deal with it manually (reject/edit/approve the user's message).
otherwise, if you have a message like "Sorry but we don't let you put email address or phone numbers in this form", I'd just put in something like: email @ my domain.com to get round it. Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quick.net> cc: Subject: [ cf-dev ] Regex 13/11/2003 13:46 Please respond to dev I have an application where my client wants to prevent users putting in either an email or a phone number into a textform field. This is to ensure that contact is made through the site owner.. Does anyone have to hand a regex that can detect an email in a stringthat they could share. Does any have an suggestions about phone numbers I think any string with more that 5 numerals would be seen as suspicious ! Only UK numbers are the concern here TIA for any thoughts. Gordon -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
