Re: [feature] anti Spambot solutions

Yes, I likely overreacted to your remark but I have
had just about enough of loudly screaming special
interests having a tyranny over the majority and then
crucifying anyone who dares to disagree with them. 
However, since we can now get off of the blind remark
in a reasonable way let's do so.


I use the image to keep a harvester from merely
scraping the text of the address, I use the encoder to
keep them from harvesting the mailto: html code.  The
beauty of it is that to a harvester it looks like
javascript but to a person clicking the link it is a
mailto link.  Did you take a look at the source of the
page?

I seriously doubt if a spammer has the capability to
keep up with and process all known (well or not)
javascripts that encode an email address.  

I also changed the function name to further obscure
the fact that I am using an email address encoder. 
Nothing about the script identifies it as email
related.  I am saying that this is pretty darn
spam-proof, even completely spam-proof.  The results
are that I have yet to get spammed on that address. 
This is either because my actions work or because I
have such an insignificant little site that nobody
cares enough to even harvest from me.





--- Steven Wittens <[email protected]> wrote:
> You have blown up my small remark about blind
> people... but I would like to
> point out that in some countries, accessible
> websites are required by law
> (though usually by extension of a broader,
> non-webspecific law).
> 
> I don't really see why in your case you use an image
> at all though: you seem
> to expect the spammer to get past the
> javascript-encoding (because you use
> an image), but then you also include a regular
> mailto-link in the script;
> doesn't this make the image useless?
> 
> Steven Wittens
> 
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