Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
ScruLoose said:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:54:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> >
>> > I've heard that using html encoding for the @ symbol on webpages will
>> > reduce harvesting ... it still shows up properly in mail clients when
>> > the user clicks on the mailto.
>> >
>> > Anyone know if the above is true or wishful thinking?
>>
>> I have a mailto using a little Javascript that I got here:
>> http://innerpeace.org/escrambler.shtml
>> which works beautifully, though only for people who have JavaScript
>> enabled on their browser.
>
> Hm. On looking at my reply, I've just noticed that the question I
> answered was not the question you asked. Oops.
>
> I haven't tried using the html escape-code for the @ symbol...
> I imagine it'll fool the crawlers, until someone writes a crawler that
> looks for it (being a one-to-one substitution, it would be very easy to
> detect and defeat)...
>
> And whether it resolves properly when a user clicks on the mailto
> button I really don't know. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the
> results varied depending on what browser/MUA combo people are using.
IMO these ideas while being slightly harder to harvest than no encodiing
are just that, slightly harder. Unfortunatly your work to protect your
email address on your web site doesn't provide a solution to the Swen
issue (message topic), because it most likely grabbed your email from
usenet, not from your web page.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg03834.html
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Jacob
Trying out SquirrelMail
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