Re: spam-proofing my mhonarc archive

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On February 17, 2003 at 20:34, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

> Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > Here's another simple trick for protecting addesses, "the m script".
> > You can install a simple script (example below), so that an address
> > like this:
> > 
> > http://host.com/cgi-bin/m/marka@afoo.com
> > 
> > This creates a valid mailto: link for mark@foo.com.
> 
> Interesting. I didn't know that the Location header could be used that way.

The only problem with this method is it is easy for address harvesters
to adapt to capturing the mailto: location when they crawl to the
CGI URL.

You can do something similiar with Javascript (since harvesters probably
cannot interpret it), but then users that have disabled javascript
would not be able to easily access the mail address.

--ewh

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