* Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-29 14:28]:
> Dan Price wrote:
> [snp]
> > Linda and team,
> > 
> > It's REALLY REALLY upsetting that no attempt is made to foil the
> > spambots.  For example, in the above link, Stephen's sun email address
> > is clearly visible for the spambots of the world to harvest.
> 
> Mhhh, I like the idea to have the emails visible, but you're right that
> the spambots can easily harvest the email addresses... too easily... ;-(
> 
> > Putting my naked email address on the web is something I've tried very
> > hard not to do.  I already get 20+ spams (despite Sun's filtering) a day;
> > this will almost certainly make things worse.
> > 
> > Can you address this as a P1/S1 issue, please?
> 
> AFAIK a simple conversion to HTML entities should kill-off most of the
> spambots (and or use <div> for random-length substrings in the address).
> Additionally you can use an alternative unicode representation to
> confuse the bots further... :-)
> Example code on demand...

  I think the injected inert tags idea would work, since it preserves
  Jim's plea for pasteability.  (<span>, not <div>, yes?)  I'll update
  John's bug.

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
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