On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 15:37 pm, Mark Leder wrote:
> 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.
> <a
> href=""> >;
> &#101;&#97;&#114;&#108;&#121;&#119;&#104;&#105;&#116;&#101;&#115;&#109;&#10
>5 ;&#108;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;" target="_blank">Notify the
> Webmaster</a>
> Does it actually work?

I don't see any reason why a spamBot would not be able to read that, any more
than a spam bot would not be able to follow an URL wiht a space (%20) in.

You're better off using some _javascript_ to write the address in at
displaytime, as @
http://falkensweb.com/contact.html

Note it also uses a disposable address that can be replaced any time, and the
old spam-infested one removed.

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