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Originally Posted by Neal-UK

can you not just prevent @ and .com .co.uk .something being allowed by setting them as illegal characters for usernames or am I missing something?

Probably, but that's really not the point of this plugin. I don't want to stop users from using their email address as their login name because many people like to do that and it makes it easier to integrate the VBulletin user database with the rest of our applications. So using these plugins you can just hide the part of their name that would reveal their email address to the public. I may enhance this plugin to allow you to specify alternate formats, such as simply rewriting the "@" to be "_at_" like some boards do, but that's obviously not going to stop a spammer from harvesting adrresses, so for now, I'm just focusing on completely hiding all email addresses on public pages.