X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B54D1B48F for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:55:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44552-07 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:55:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F15DD1B475 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:55:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from myrealbox.com grzm@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [61.115.206.98] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.45 $ on Novell NetWare; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:55:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:55:03 +0900 Subject: Re: Replacing @ with " at " Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ , Dave Page , PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List To: Robert Treat From: Michael Glaesemann In-Reply-To: <200312050734.39069.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Message-Id: <3E6B035C-2722-11D8-87EA-0005029FC1A7@myrealbox.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200312/46 X-Sequence-Number: 3106 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=20 > 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=20 to pick it up regardless=97my guess is it's even more likely to pick up a= =20 mailto: link than just a address elsewhere on the page. I know there=20 are ways of obfuscating the email address using Javascript (such as=20 Hiveware's Enkoder http://www.hiveware.com/enkoder.php for Mac OS X.=20 Pretty cool, as it even varies the Javascript so bots have more trouble=20 learning it. I know someone a lot smarter than me can figure out how to=20 turn this into a server-side solution, and I'm sure someone probably=20 already has.) 1 & 3 seem fine, though it would be nice of the mailto: worked as a=20 link. Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com