Guys hate to rain on your parade but if your browser can understand
that obfuscation what makes you think that a email address harvestor
is not going to be able to?
These guys are writing complex viruses that harvest email addresses
directly from people's Outlook contact lists, surely they can
I have been using the obfuscation method for some time now, and while it may
not totally eliminate spam harvesting, IMHO it certainly does slow the
harvesting down.
I have used the javascript method also, with the addition of a gif
displaying the e-mail address for folks that have javascript
On 6/4/04 2:05 AM Mike Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent
this out:
There is no doubting professional harvesters will easily circumvent the
obfuscation. This is a damage limitation exercise. In this war of attrition,
any counter-measure is better than none. A 'What's the point attitude' is
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Alan Harrison
Sent: 04 June 2004 08:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] Anti-spam mailto encoders using Character Entity
Evasion
I have been using the obfuscation
It does now...
why not use the content: selector and set your email in there ;)
Shame IE dont like Content: tho!
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for some hints on
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:41:32 +1000, Alan Harrison wrote:
Mark is quite correct when he says that complex e-mail harvesters will
probably work around these methods, but it appears that most of the
harvesting is done by very basic programs that are looking only for e-mail
addresses stored in
Jaime,
Just use http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/obfuscate_email.asp.
Might prove useful and does it all for you, including complete mail-to
strings.
Mike Pepper
Accessible Web Developer (with a headache because he's been on the system
way too long)
http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com
the default which is ISO Conversion.
Best Wishes,
Jaime ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Pepper
Sent: Friday, 4 June 2004 3:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] Anti-spam mailto encoders using Character Entity
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www.seowebsitepromotion.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Jaime W
Sent: 03 June 2004 22:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] Anti-spam mailto encoders using Character Entity
Evasion
Mike you are a gem! This tool generates codes that validates in XHTML 1.0
DTD
mailto encoders using Character Entity Evasion
Mike you are a gem! This tool generates codes that validates in XHTML 1.0
DTD Strict! Is helpful and great for lazy people like me lol. Tested it and
it works great.
Thank you thank you very much!
By the way what is the differences between ISO and Hex
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