Suggestion for phone number privacy anti-spam protection

[maxo]

When posting a listing, it would be cool if there were an optional box to enter a phone number. When the listing is posted, the text (phone #) is converted to an image and shown as an image at bottom of listing description. Would this be a good privacy measure? Many people are worried about phone & email harvesting by spammers...you can see that on craigslist many people are spelling out their phone numbers instead of using number digits. for example, instead of 555-5555, they put five five five - five five five five.

Good idea or bad? I guess this could be a plugin? Maybe this same thing could work for protecting email addresses too when people want to show it in the listing.

[KarlssoN]

+1 for this idea!

[maxo]

There are many "text to image" scripts and online services that can do this sort of thing.

[zombie]

Simply use cufon for that field. I think twitter theme has it.

[maxo]

Hi zealotry:

Thanks. You mentioned that the twitter theme has cufon ability? Where in the theme/code can it be found? I think your suggestion is great. Any idea on how to implement cufon into a phone number field when users post new items? I know there is a feature to add custom fields, but I'm not sure how to add (code) to affect any given custom field.