Re: mailto link obfuscation

Umm, your mail's pretty vague to me, at least, but ... have you 
tried crawling the site yourself?  Not sure but I think I walked 
right into everything you have there.
   Maybe I'm missing something?  Looked pretty obvious, really.

Pop



"Guy Macon" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
>
> I am about to redo the mailto link obfuscation on my webpage at
> [ http://www.guymacon.com/ ], and would like to hear any 
> comments,
> suggestion, brickbats and flames concerning how I do it.
>
> The link is at the top of [ http://www.guymacon.com/ ], and the 
> HTML
> is as follows (line breaks added for newsgroup posting):
>
> <a 
> href="&#x6d;a&#105;&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;G&#117;&#x79;M&#97;&#x63;
> o&#110;&#x2b;&#89;2&#48;&#x30;6&#64;&#x53;p&#97;&#x6d;C&#111;&#x70;
> .&#78;&#x65;t;&#63;&amp;subject=[Y2006]: %3F%3F%3F%3F &lt;--  
> Insert
> Subject 
> Here.&amp;body=%5BY2006%5D%3A%20%3C--%20Do%20not%20remove%20
> this%3B%20it%20tells%20my%20filters%20that%20this%20is%20not%20spam.">
> G&#117;&#x79;<!-- @. -->M&#97;&#x63;o<!--  
> [email protected] -->
> &#110;&#x2b;&#89;<span class="rtl">6&#48;<!--  
> [email protected] -->&#x30;2
> </span>&#64;&#x53;p<!-- [email protected] -->&#97;&#x6d;<!--  
> spam
> [email protected] -->C&#111;&#x70;.<!--  
> spamtrap@spambouncer.
> org -->&#78;&#x65;t</a>
>
> ...and the CSS invoked by the spans is as follows:
>
> @media screen {
> .rtl { unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: rtl; }
> }
>
> Geeky enough for you? :)
>
> Feel free to send me test emails to test the link.  Note that 
> you
> see one email address on the screen and when clicking the link,
> and another when reading a printout of the page or when you cut 
> and
> paste the email address into a document.  I get both emails and 
> have
> different filtering rules for each.  So far, no spambot has 
> harvested
> either of the two email addresses.
>
> I am considering making the following changes:
>
> [1] instead of the current two email addresses, make five of 
> them
> with a different address depending on whether you click the 
> mailto
> without Javascript, click the mailto with Javascript, type in 
> what
> you see on the screen, type in what you see on a printout, or 
> cut
> and paste from the screen.
>
> [3] Put in a way to reach me through a form in addition to the 
> mailto.
>
> [3] Use my own domain name instead of spamcop.net, and send the 
> email
> to a tuffmail server instead of the spamcop server.  As much as 
> I like
> the spamcop mail system, tuffmail has better features for my 
> needs.
>
> [4] Use a "-" character instead of the current "+" character.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
>