Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Wander Nauta
I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point herehttp://typewriting.org/2006/06/19/Email_Obfuscation_Helps_Spammers/ : In some ways, obfuscated addresses are even more valuable to spammers, as the very act of

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Arno Hautala
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:47, Wander Nauta i...@wandernauta.nl wrote: I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point here: A while back, around the time I sent the original message to this list, I hadn't

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Wander Nauta i...@wandernauta.nl wrote: I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point here: In some ways, obfuscated addresses are even more valuable to spammers, as the very

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Fletcher T. Penney
On a related topic --- does anyone know how to pass an obfuscated email address through XSLT? I've tried googling various solutions and am coming to the conclusion that it basically would require manually re-encoding to the output? Discovered that applying XSLT to a Markdown generated HTML doc

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Fletcher T. Penney fletc...@fletcherpenney.net wrote: On a related topic ---  does anyone know how to pass an obfuscated email address through XSLT? CDATA wrapper? LQ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Fletcher T. Penney
The obfuscated address will be in the input file, not embedded in the stylesheet. So it's de-obfuscated before it even gets to the stylesheet F- On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Lou Quillio pub...@quillio.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Fletcher T. Penney

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-11 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: The other thread brought to my attention that only the email syntax obfuscates mailto links. Plus, while the entity encoding technique probably fools some scrapers, I doubt it's all that effective. Incredibly, it's still