Posted by Nico Schuyt on 10/13/06 03:19
Nikita the Spider wrote:
> I've set up several spamtrap addresses to study this. Eventually I'll
> write a short article about my findings, but in the meantime I'll
> summarize here. I have three email addresses all on the same page. One
> is naked (i.e. just foo@example.com), one is entity encoded (i.e.
> foo etc.) and one is added to the page by Javascript.
> The number of spams each has gotten to date is as follows:
> naked - 715
> entities - 2
> javascript - 1
> In short, the entities look pretty effective to me. They're nice
> because they don't disturb one's visitors at all and you don't have
> to mess around with any Javascript.
> But another way of looking at it is to say that Javascript protection
> is twice as effective as entity protection. =) (Thanks to Huff's "How
> to Lie with Statistics")
Both are unreliable. Even *I* can make script that extracts email addresses
from JS or entity coded text :-)
Use a mail form.
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Nico Schuyt
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/
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