RE: Settle an argument for me

[Shawn Regan]

I would say no. But you need to ask yourself. Are these Spam bots smart
enough to reverse the extended chars? If they are setup with this type of
function, then yes I would say they are still picking them up.

I would say "this is just a guess" they are not doing this type of function
while gathering emails.

Shawn Regan
Head Applications Developer
pacifictechnologysolutions

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:37 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Settle an argument for me


I've been using a UDF called "emailAntiSpam", which replaces an email
address in the source code with extended characters which supposedly can't
be crawled and picked up by spambots.

So my address:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] would look like:

<a
href=""> &#101;&#97;&#114;&#108;&#121;&#119;&#104;&#105;&#116;&#101;&#115;&#109;&#105
;&#108;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;" target="_blank">Notify the
Webmaster</a>

My problem, my client thinks they are still being picked up and used for
spam - I also have a robots.txt file set to disallow bot crawling.

I've had both these in place since day one, when the site was posted about 3
months ago.

Does it actually work?

Thanks, Mark


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