Posted by Michael Daly on 03/30/07 18:03

Sean wrote:

> <script>
> function em(who, domain, ext)
> {
> location.href = "mailto:" + who + "@" + domain + "." + ext;
> }
> </script>

If you're going to use JS, put part of it in other js files and load
them - that just smears the info across files which...

> Okay, so any programmer with 20 seconds to spare would write something to
> unravel this, but with the "billions" of email addresses readily available
> on so many websites, is it worth their effort?

.... makes this coding effort slightly more annoying.

If they grab the page rendering code from an open source browser
project, they could generate the page and look at that for the address.
We just have to hope they are too lazy and obvious addresses are too
easy to find for them to take that next step.

Mike

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