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obfuscating email addresses (was: Re: WINE on Cygwin)
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:01:05 -0800
- Subject: obfuscating email addresses (was: Re: WINE on Cygwin)
- References: <200511140753.46784.leon-cygwin-list@cyberknights.com.au>
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:53:45AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> BTW, about the spam-armouring on the list archives... I copied and
> pasted the addresses in this email, verbatim, from sources.redhat.com
> into KMail and they all came out right. If KMail can do it, so can
> spammers. Two tricks I use to achieve the same ends are to simply leave
> the word "dot" out of the domain, so my email becomes "leon at
> cyberknights com au", and to scramble the addresses and use an
> OnMouseOver to descramble them at view time. Sooner or later, the
> nasties will start executing JavaScript too, but at the moment it seems
> to work.
There's a neat little script to make addresses still readable but
not so easily scraped here:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=369960