Re: [ql-users] Knoware

[Tony Firshman]

On  Sun, 4 Apr 2004 at 16:46:56, P Witte wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)


>James Hunkins wrote:  To disguise [your email address] simply turn it into a
>graphic, distort it a bit (some color shading, a bend here and there) will
>hide it very well.
>
>And I wouldn't wait too long.  There are Spam 'bots' polling the web on
>a constant basis.
>
>But I have! What you see is a graphic, and the mailto instruction is
>camouflaged by using code instead of letters at certain strategic points.
>Shouldnt that be ok?
&#109ailto&#58pj&#x40witte&#46fsbusiness&#46co&#46uk
>
>
>Tony Firsham
Who is he?   (8-)#
>wrote (re email): Best way of all is to include a form linking
>to a cgi - can you do that on Freeserve?
>
>I had some 20 hits before the page was announced and theres been no increase
>in spam. Havent thwarted the buggers with my little ploys?
Probably - I hadn't noticed that.
Mind you if I was writing a bot, I would put pages through something
like:

$html =~ s!&#58!:!sg;
$html =~ s!&[EMAIL PROTECTED];
$html =~ s!&#46!\.!sg;
and so on with decimal and hex versions.

Your substitutions wouldn't stand a chance (8-)#
You are probably right though - most would not bother, even though they
would only normally need to change substitutions for  . @ ~ _ .
A cgi though is the totally foolproof way.
Do Freeserve not give you a cgi area?

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