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.
>
> 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?

Can you figure out a workaround? If so, it doesn't work.

And if not, I can figure one out for you. If I ever were to cross
over to the dark side, it would actually be the first thing to
look for when writing a harvester. If it is important enough to
obfuscate, it must be real.

Jochem



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