Secure portal

[niceday]

Anybody knows how should we implement a portal-like website that allow its members to communicate through the private message but does not allow them to exchange email address or any other contact details? It is much like the FriendFinder implementation.

I imagine the if we rely on the word filtering on every private message (like filter the @ character) it will not guarantee that we could avoid such email address being passed to one another.

Please share some ideas. Thanks.

[GregT]

Maybe something like PHPNuke ?

Though that might not be what your looking for. I'm sure you could easily setup on a filter on a CMS that would censor emails.

Like have it search for @ and * out everything connected to it. (ababa@ababa.net would become *****@*****.***)

Just my 2c :-)

[niceday]

Then I will have problem when ppl put theirname(at)somedomain(dot)com as their email address.

[spec]

there is absolutely no way to stop people from sharing personal information when you are running a service that sends out user information.

[niceday]

Were you saying that I have to manually monitor all messages?

[spec]

well since a script cannot be intellegent and actually read what someone is typing, there is no way to stop for instance:
email@somewhere.com
email(at)somewhere(dot)com
you can reach me with my somewhere account, email.

how can you stop them? you really cant.