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Email address names
Club email names that have the form ttc-<officename>@ttc.org.nz are the ones provided from contact and email links on the website.
What appears in the text can vary for example "Sends news .... to the editor: Colin Cook on (04) 999-9999" has a link under "Colin Cook" which generates an email header with Subject:"Query from TTC website" and a To:ttc-tramper [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz.
The user doesn't have to type in any of that and may well not even bother to look at what is
generated, by simply selecting the link his or her mail client opens up a new email with that data already filled in.
Mail coming in to a ttc-<officename>@ttc.org.nz email address is redirected to
the office holder's(s') actual email address(es) by an "invisible" table in the system.
The redirection makes it easier when an office holder changes.
The prefix "ttc-" is intended to reduce the amount of spam that may get through.
Some spammers simply get lots of website addresses and email to each of
helpdesk, editor, president, secretary, treasurer, webmaster, and similar (a so called dictionary attack) at each website.
By avoiding those "standard" names such emails to @ttc.org.nz don't go through.
We also avoid having the actual ttc-<officename>@ttc.org.nz addresses appearing
as literal text on the pages by constructing those using symbols, so that
spammers who pick email links from page content source are also defeated.
Nevertheless, ultimately the ttc-<officename>@ttc.org.nz names can be exposed
to some spamming robots, or harvested from address books on insecure computers, and for example via ttc-clubroll [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz there are a few each
week (if the TTC had accounts with all the banks that want to confirm our details we might be very rich !).
As the table allows any given name@ttc.org.nz to be redirected to an office holder the standard need not be followed if there is good reason.
An example is that editor [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz is currently in our list that is redirected.
It is assumed that this makes it easier for anyone to type in the address from the printed Tramper.
As long as that isn't resulting in lots of spam that is reasonable. The choice is the office holder's.
The maintenance process for emails is described briefly at Maintenance#email.
The obfustication of email addresses is done through the DeObMail recipe.
You can check that email addresses are hidden on the website, visit http://aspirine.org/cgi-bin/trouvemail.pl?lang=en and test it on
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