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From: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Replacing @ with " at "
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:55:03 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 09:34 PM, Robert Treat wrote:
> Theres a couple solutions to this:
>
> 1) Don't make the email address a link
> 2) make the mailto be a valid link, but the words on the page not
> 3) add a checkbox to the submit page to "obfuscate email", so that 
> s/@/at, and
> not a link, or we'll leave in @ and make it a link.

As for 2, if the mailto is literal text in the html, a spambot is going 
to pick it up regardless—my guess is it's even more likely to pick up a 
mailto: link than just a address elsewhere on the page. I know there 
are ways of obfuscating the email address using Javascript (such as 
Hiveware's Enkoder http://www.hiveware.com/enkoder.php for Mac OS X. 
Pretty cool, as it even varies the Javascript so bots have more trouble 
learning it. I know someone a lot smarter than me can figure out how to 
turn this into a server-side solution, and I'm sure someone probably 
already has.)

1 & 3 seem fine, though it would be nice of the mailto: worked as a 
link.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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