On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> I did a correlation check against my control lists (and java-linux
> just for good measure) and one of your last ten spams appeared on
> another list. That spam was from a pre-antispambot harvest. So, I
> suspect the vast majority of your list's spam was not due to
> mail-archive.com exposure.

It may well have been harvested elsewhere but the list wasn't that widely
advertised in the first place. Hmm.. 

> Hmm... what a horrible solution, deliberately ignoring straightforward
> w3c compatibility standards, adding an unnessary indirection,
> increasing system complexity, and requiring a vastly more
> sophisticated client. My engineering sensibilities are apalled. (They
> keep suggesting shooting the spammers.)
> 
> But that may be the way to go. Especially if I can put the obfuscated
> email address in the mailto: and just have a javascript function
> automagically do the conversion. After a quick look at bansai it was
> not obvious to me what they were doing (they seem to have javascript
> and a cgi program joined at the hip for this + some added
> functionality.)  I don't suppose you'd be interested in providing a
> pure javascript code example?

I haven't actually looked at the code but I'm sure that a javascript
example should be doable. I don't program in Javascript so I would have to
dig up a book to do it. 

> Another thing I was thinking of was providing email addresses
> as jeff<strong>@</strong>jab.org without a mailto: link. Think that
> would be as effective as jeff%jab.org and cause less confusion?

I just talked to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he suggested the following code
fragment.

email = bonsaiAddr.replace(/%/, "@");

--Jauder

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