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Re: Removal of Email Address



On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:46:48PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Adding some twists to make e-mail address not too obvious to the stupid
> spam crawler may still be useful.

One thing which already defeats 90% of those stupid spam spiders is to
encode the "mailto:"; and "@" in email addresses, e.g. "&64;" for "@". 
Obviously, this still works very well in all browsers.

More secure would be to replace the "@" with a small inline picture.

Cheers,

  Richard

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