Re: [feature] anti Spambot solutions

> This first is an example of decoding a mailto: link.
> I use it and love it.  I use it in conjunction with an
> image that looks like text.  You can see it here:
> http://www.harvesterchurch.org/node/view/40 .  This is
> completely spam-proof.

Using images for email addresses is quite unfriendly for e.g. blind users.
Email harvesters are also getting smarter and might first execute the script
on a page before scanning it: this is not such a crazy idea, because almost
any email address collected in this fashion will be real.
Even OCR techniques have been employed before; this is why the "please type
the text from image"-tests (commonly referred to as CAPTCHA) are becoming
more and more complicated, to the point where sometimes even people have
trouble completing it.

I'm not saying I have a better solution, but I'd like to point out that your
'completely spam proof' method is not as watertight as you might think.
Especially when people start using commonly available "plug-and-play"
scripts, it's dead easy to extract email addresses that are hidden using a
specific method.


Steven Wittens

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