On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > The other thread brought to my attention that only the <email> syntax > obfuscates mailto links. Plus, while the entity encoding technique > probably fools some scrapers, I doubt it's all that effective.
Incredibly, it's still very effective. Back when I kept a personal site with actual content, I kept an entity-encoded mailto: link to [email protected] on all pages. For maybe eight years (up until about four years ago), that alias never received a message. I still use entity-encoding mailtos on public sites and don't have the impression that they're scraped. I think the harvesters are all about low-hanging fruit, and decoding is still more expensive than it's worth. Might change some day, but doesn't seem to have -- yet. LQ -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com/ [email protected] +1 518.285.0003 (gVoice) _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
