Posted by andrew on 09/03/07 22:55

On 2007-09-03, JL <user@example.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> The other day, I encountered a site with a mailto link like this:
>
><a
> href="mailto:&#105;&#110;&#102;&#111;&#064;&#101;&#120;&#097;&#109
;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;">
> &#105;&#110;&#102;&#111;&#064;&#101;&#120;&#097;&#109;&#112;&#108;
&#101;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;
></a>
>
> Will this actually prevent anything from harvesting the email address?

I have used this technique and it has proved very successful. Because
I am a little lazy I used the following:

http://www.addressmunger.com/

to generate the mess :-) A gentleman named Nikita published a page in
which he spoke of spam / email addresses which is well worth reading:

http://nikitathespider.com/articles/IngenReklamTack.html

All the best,

Andrew

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