On Jun 20, 2006, at 15:37, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote:
>
>> In RapidWeaver the Contacts page is PHP, and has been patched
>> twice in the past few months. My?perhaps illogical?reasoning is
>> the mailto: html is more secure with less bother for maintaining
>> my site. I'm also looking into encrypting the site mail address.
>> Thanks. best...jf
>
> This is a bit off topic, but something I do to make the spam email
> address harvesters work a little harder is to obfuscate my email
> address on my web pages with a little scripting:
>
> <script language="JavaScript"><!--
> var name = "llarson";
> var domain = "louisville.edu";
> document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');
> document.write(name + '@' + domain + '</a>');
> // --></script>
>
> This appears in a Web browser as my email address, but the spambots
> aren't as likely to pick it up because they don't parse it as an
> address unless they evaluate the script.
I dunno if this is any more secure, but I use the ASCII encoding for
my email address, so that mailto: becomes
&mailto: (essentially its &#(letter's
value from start of alphabet + 96)). I do this only out of wanting
(for no real reason) to not use javascript.
Bill
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