Posted by Ed Jay on 11/12/06 18:25

Nikita the Spider scribed:

>Hi all,
>As promised in our earlier discussion, here's my article that describes
>the effectiveness of inhibiting spam by "hiding" one's email address on
>Web pages:
>http://NikitaTheSpider.com/articles/IngenReklamTack.html
>
>Preliminary results for this experiment were discussed here:
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/browse_frm/thread/16614b23132123f
>8
>
>There's also a link to that conversation in the article itself in case
>Usenet line wrapping destroys the URL above.
>
Very interesting. Thanks for the work.

If your experimental results are valid, it seems a no-brainer to go with
character obfuscation, regardless of whether or not the visitor has js
enabled.
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Ed Jay (remove 'M' to respond by email)

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