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Re: obfuscating email addresses (was: Re: WINE on Cygwin)


Carl Karsten wrote:

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

There's a neat little script to make addresses still readable but not
so easily scraped here:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=369960



Maybe not so easily scraped in HTML form, but if you open the file in a browser and save it as text, the obfuscation is gone. So in the very least it's easy to defeat.


Studies show that isn't happing.

yet.

Then someone needs to code a robot which will decode the addresses, it just needs to know that this is the beginning of an obfuscated emailaddress:

<p align="center"><span class="&gt;ihatespammers&lt;"><font color="#ff0000">T</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;spamsucks&lt;
&gt;scrapethis&lt;&lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><span class="&gt;ihatespammers&lt;"><font color="#ff0600">h</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;screwyouspammer&lt;
&gt;screwyouspammer&lt;&lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><span class="&gt;spamsucks&lt;"><font color="#ff0d00">&#105;</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;spamsucks&lt;
&gt;spamsucks&lt;&lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><span class="&gt;screwyouspammer&lt;"><font color="#ff1300">&#115;</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><span class="&gt;spamsucks&lt;"><font color="#ff1a00">&nbsp;</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><span class="&gt;scrapethis&lt;"><font color="#ff2000">i</font></span><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;screwyouspammer&lt;
&gt;ihatespammers&lt;&lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><font color="#ff2700">s</font><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;ihatespammers&lt;
&gt;spamsucks&lt;&lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><font color="#ff2d00">&nbsp;</font><!-- --&gt;
:-) &lt;!-- --><!-- --&gt;&gt;screwyouspammer&lt;



G. -- =^..^=


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