Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-30 Thread designer
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/how_to_avoid_spambots_2.php *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-30 Thread Henrik Madsen
Yes. Agree. Honeypot for the harvesters. Henrik Madsen +61 08 9387 1250 hen...@igenerator.com.au www.igenerator.com.au On 30/11/2010, at 6:10 PM, designer wrote: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/how_to_avoid_spambots_2.php

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-30 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/ I'm not sure about that. It is more than *8* years old... -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz *** List

[WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like this: bob at domain dot com seems pretty clever. Yet, when I think about the alt text for that image, I'm wondering if that alt text could be exploited by spiders... would it be

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Drake
[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of cat soul Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:04 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] alt text on email graphic The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like this: bob at domain

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Ted Drake wrote: If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Michael MD
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing with images will just make it more

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Chad Kelly
- Original Message - From: cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:03 AM Subject: [WSG] alt text on email graphic The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Grant Bailey
] alt text on email graphic The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like this: bob at domain dot com seems pretty clever. Yet, when I think about the alt text for that image, I'm wondering if that alt text could be exploited

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Grant Bailey wrote: This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/ wow... wonder why the author didn't suggest the form method? cs *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Chad Kelly
- Original Message - From: cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Grant Bailey wrote: This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com