Stephen Hahn wrote:
> 
> * 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?

Erm... yes. Somehow I was thinking about's rssread's HTML output format
and my brain messed it up... again... ;-(

>   )  I'll update
>   John's bug.

Ok... please add the suggestion to encode the full email string as HTML
entities or normal characers - this gives at least four encoding
variants per one character (where the "encoding" should be selected
randomly) and is a PAIN for the bots to parse (see the "rssread.ksh"
script which only gets this part ~~50% correct).

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Bye,
Roland

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