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). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
