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HelpShould I be worried about email address theft from the directory?
OAAIS recognizes that exposing your email address via the Faculty and Staff Directory may encourage spam to that email address. However, leaving it out defeats one of the primary purposes of your directory listing.
You may choose to restrict your email address to only those viewers who are within UCSF. Have the release code for your email address in the Campus Locator System (CLS) set to "3" and the email address will not be visible to anyone outside UCSF.
Another approach may be to talk to your technical support staff and see if there are ways you can configure your email application to better divert spam to the trash before it reaches your inbox.
The directory file is protected and OAAIS has constructed the directory search so that it is not possible to grab and dump the entire contents. However, a patient spammer (or spammer bot) could look up the entire directory one letter at a time. There really is no way to both make contact information in the directory available and at the same time prevent someone from "harvesting" it.
There is no universal solution that OAAIS can implement at the directory level and no "one solution fits all" for those listed in the directory. For each individual it comes down to a balance between ease of access and tolerance for spam.