I am interested in disgusing email addresses to prevent harvesting by spammers. This (harvesting), has been a considerable problem for us!
I have tried using the decimal character equivallents (see below), but the Mozilla converts these back into ASCII in the HTLM code. Is there a work around?
The Mozilla editor staff (http://www.mozilla.org/editor/#Who_are_we) use the "remove the spaces" approach, e.g., "joe smith at mozilla . org". Is this the best strategy?
Thank you
mailto:derek dot eder at neuro dot gu dot se
References:
Disguise e-mail addresses posted in a public electronic place.
CDT received the most spam just by placing an e-mail address at the bottom of a webpage. Spammers "harvest" these addresses with computer programs that collect and process addresses and add them to spam mailing lists. If a user must post his/her e-mail address in a public place, it is useful to disguise the address through simple means such as replacing "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "example at domain dot com" or other variations such as the HTML numeric equivalent, in which "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" could be written "example@d omain.com."
- from: http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
Online Decimal equivallent converter: http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
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