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| 2004/9/4-6 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:33351 Activity:high |
9/3 I started getting spam on an account that is only mentioned on
my webpage (it's not my normal account). If it's an automated
spider or something that scans webpages for email addresses,
would it make a difference if I either 1) put up the email address
without an actual "mailto:" link or 2) put up an image of the
text of my email address? Thanks.
\_ http://www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator -tom
\_ 30 seconds and someone's added that to their harvester script.
\_ nice concept, but as you come up with a solution, it's already
obsolete. Naive. Nice try.
\_ Wrong. Certainly it's possible to write a harvester that
gets around obfuscators, but there are dozens of different
ones out there, and they include random elements which makes
it difficult to script for. You don't need to solve 100% of
the problem to make a big improvement. -tom
\_ There's no such thing as a right/wrong answer. There are
are only trade-offs to consider. This is a typical
tom holub opinionated answer. Go get an education.
\_ You said it was obsolete, he said you're wrong. I think
he wins.
\_ You still view talking to, you know, other people
as a competitive game with winners and losers?
Yeah, ok, you 'win,' buddy. Let us know when you join
the rest of the adult world. -- random guy
\_ Tom in a nutshell: An asshole online. Not
stupid, but not as smart as he thinks he is.
He has some native intelligence but is not
well educated, so he doesn't know how to
think about complicated concepts. His main
defect is not realizing these limitations.
Disclaimer: I don't know what his personality
is like face to face, but I've been around
CSUA for a while.
\_ make a comment form and script
\_ It's too late for that account. Once your account is on 1 spammer
list, it'll soon be sold and resold forever until they all have it.
I suggest changing the account name, dropping that address and
implementing various email hiding solutions. Uhm, in reverse
order to what I just said, :-).
\_ http://www.spamhole.com
\_ Nice. http://Mailinator.com as well. -John
\_ Or http://spamgourmet.com, which is even easier after initial setup |
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| www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator -> www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator/ E-mail Obfuscator is an online tool for webmasters that obfuscates e-mail addresses that you enter, making them less vulnerable to spammers who use e-mail harvesting software, also called spam-bots. E-mail Obfuscator generates HTML source code for a link which uses the obfuscated version of the e-mail address you entered. You can simply cut and paste this source code into your HTML editor. Usage Instructions: 1 In the first field -- "E-mail address", enter the e-mail address you want to have obfuscated. com 2 In the second field -- "Optional Display Text", enter the text you want to have the user see associated with the e-mail address in the hyperlink that is generated. For example: The Webmaster 3 As its name implies, the "Optional Display Text" field is optional. If you leave it empty, E-mail Obfuscator will use the obfuscated version of the e-mail address entered in the "E-mail address" field. This will create an anchor tag containing an obfuscated e-mail link using the information you provided in the steps above in the "Obfuscated E-mail Link HTML" text area. Additionally, a pop-up window will come up entitled "Link Tester." The link in the pop-up window was created with the code in the "Obfuscated E-mail Link HTML" text area. Clicking on the link in the popup window is useful for determining if the link you just created is exactly what you want. This will select the text in the "Generate Obfuscated E-mail Link" text area. Copy the text to the clipboard and then paste it into your HTML editor. In Windows operating systems, you can do this by pressing Control-->C to copy the text into the clipboard from the text area and Control-->V to paste the text from the clipboard into your HTML editor. Note: keep all of the code that E-mail Obfuscator generates on the same line in your HTML editor. Spanning the code across lines may cause the link to be displayed improperly. |
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