Re: protecting email addresses on a web site

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I tried this:
<?php echo "<span
class=\"safety\">sss>a/<moc.liamg@xxxxxxxxxxx<\"moc.liamg@xxxxxxxxxxx:otliam\"=ferh
a></span>";
?>
and css:
.safety { direction:rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; }
for the address jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx
but I haven't managed it to display properly
Could someone please direct me, I believe if I put the
<a class="safety" href="mailto:jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx";>vicaversa</a>...
it does not really protect the email address, because in mailto: it
has to be as defined jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx
Thanks,
-- When the sun rises I receive and when it sets I forgive ->
http://moj.skavt.net/gleskovs/
Always in Heart, Grega LeskovÅek




2010/6/15 Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:02 -0400, HallMarc Websites wrote:
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 10:52 AM
>> To: Dotan Cohen
>> Cc: HallMarc Websites; David Mehler; php-general
>> Subject: Re:  protecting email addresses on a web site
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 17:50 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> > On 14 June 2010 15:36, HallMarc Websites <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > > Another is a CSS solution where you type the email address backwards and
>> > > then use the CSS style declaration:
>> > > style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override;"
>> > >
>> >
>> > How does that work with screen readers? How about copy-paste?
>> >
>>
>>
>> I don't think there's an accessible way of doing this. Anything that
>> allows a screen reader to speak the email address would also be
>> susceptible to spammers email scrapers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
>> Copy-n-paste just gives you the email address backwards; screen readers,
>> because we are using logical ordering and it is stored in memory the way we
>> expect to read it, will read it correctly.
>>
>> I was not aware that email harvesters used screen readers. Do you have some
>> documentation I could read to get up to speed on this?
>>
>> Marc Hall
>> HallMarc Websites
>> So many spammers, so few bullets...
>>
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>
>
> I didn't say the harvesters used screen readers. I'm saying that if
> something is in plain text that a screen reader can understand, what's
> to stop an email address harvester? It's not worth their time to analyse
> every image (think about where Google is with image searching right now,
> and they have a lot more resources at their disposal) but it is easy
> enough to read text in a web page. At a push, it's possible to believe
> that some might be using rendered CSS to see how an email is rendered.
>
> Thing is, it's nigh on impossible to hide an email address. Use it once
> on a mailing list like this and it's there for the whole world to see on
> archive listings. I even though that my email wouldn't be found in
> a .pdf CV I'd made, but thanks to Google it is now!
>
> Basically, it might not be worth the effort to hide email addresses, and
> instead see about setting up spam filtering at the server level. You
> don't have to download and filter it your end, and it saves on
> bandwidth.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

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