Website woe

[email protected] (John) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:53:16 +0800
Newsgroups php.gtk.webmaster
Message-ID <[email protected]>
1.
I tried to read the documentation. First, you asked me to choose a
language. I don't understand this as my browser has already told you. It
includes this header:
Accept-Language: en-au,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3

2.
I made my choice, English, and chose GTK1 in English. This gets a 404 error.

3. I saw a video on the famous Youtube a couple of days ago. It shows 
how to use google to find obfuscated email addresses. Finding clear 
email addresses is much more difficult.

I can implement it in a shell script using lynx, grep, sed and maybe a 
couple of dozen lines of perl. Try this search for a hint:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=mozilla&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&as_q=&as_epq=dot++*+dot+com&as_oq=&as_eq=bubble&num=100&lr=lang_en&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

I got about 179 million hits. It's easier to search those (maybe from 
Google's cache) than all of the 'net. There's another 42 million hits 
looking for dot net, 27 million for dot org.

I myself go to some trouble to keep my most used email addresses from 
prying eyes. The email address I'm writing to looks suspiciously like a 
mailing list (if it is, your website should say so, some people don't 
like their email addresses bing published), so I'm using a temporary 
one. I run a script daily that creates a bunch of email addresses 
(aliases for postfix) like the one above. They are created for a few 
days into the future, and extend back for a few days. The result is the 
addresses only last 2-3 weeks and are not useful to spammers. I could 
use a little php code to generate matching addresses on the fly so 
visitors wanting to contact me get a clear email address. If an address 
harvester get it, probably it's expired before it gets sold.

-- 
John