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Index of Subjects Hi Norm! On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Norman L. DeForest wrote: > If the addresses were coded as "mailto:username@domain" instead > of "mailto:username@domain" this would break most of the spammers' > harvesters. Most of them just look for anything with '@' in the middle. > > I have already tossed a suggestion at the tech team that some script be > generated that would change all occurrences of '@' in selected html files > into '@' to foil the harvesters -- possibly one that could be run > against a directory for IPs and that could be run against tagged files > in lynx for users. > > Additional obfuscation, such as: > > <quote> > If you have any comments about this site<br> > <A HREF="mailto:%20af380@( Norman )chebucto( De Forest ).ns( CIH.html ).ca"> > send me an email message</A>.</P> > </quote> I'm not even so clever as that. I simply recode some of my links to read: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/cgi-bin/mf3?TO=Yang%20Tai%20Chi%20%3ctaichi%40chebucto.ns.ca%3e&SUBJECT=Comments" I'm pretty certain that this would foil 99.9% of spam harvesters. However, we are not going to be able to get the vast majority of IP editors to do anything like this. Ergo, perhaps the CCN should consider (if it is going to retain these <link> elements at all) of coding them in a more obscure fashion? Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor: Culture & Philosophy - Chebucto Community Net, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture.html "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved." -- Andre Malraux, 1957 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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