Posted by patrick j on 03/05/07 07:52

On Mar 4, 2007 dorayme wrote:

> We had a thread a while back in which Spider Monkey gave some
> impressive results of personal trials using encoding etc and no
> one really challenged the fact that various masking techniques
> were quite effective in practice.

Yes, I recall that thread. Was it Spider Monkey however who did the tests?

> I believe now in encoding email addresses and my view is that
> spam bots will go for the low lying fruit and that it is worth it
> to put email addresses onto higher branches.

I've gone through the various suggestions and now I think I'll use the
suggested javascript.

Although it's true it doesn't work if javascript is off, I think for this
web-page 99% of users will have javascript on.

The web form I think is the most secure way to prevent the email address
being harvested however the neatness of just the email address on the
web-page is nice in this application.

For some reason I think the javascript might be more secure than using
ASCII number alternative to the actual letters but I don't know why I think
that. Indeed the personal testing out of this reported some time ago in
this newsgroup would shed light on this.

Thanks to all for your suggestions :)



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Patrick
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