obfuscating email addresses (was: Re: WINE on Cygwin)

Gerrit P. Haase gerrit@familiehaase.de
Tue Nov 15 19:56:00 GMT 2005


Carl Karsten wrote:

> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> 
>> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>
>>> There's a neat little script to make addresses still readable but not
>>> so easily scraped here:
>>> http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=369960
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe not so easily scraped in HTML form, but if you open the
>> file in a browser and save it as text, the obfuscation is gone.
>> So in the very least it's easy to defeat.
> 
> 
> Studies show that isn't happing.
> 
> yet.

Then someone needs to code a robot which will decode the addresses,
it just needs to know that this is the beginning of an obfuscated
emailaddress:

<p align="center"><span class=">ihatespammers<"><font 
color="#ff0000">T</font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>spamsucks<
>scrapethis<<!-- --><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><span class=">ihatespammers<"><font 
color="#ff0600">h</font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>screwyouspammer<
>screwyouspammer<<!-- --><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><span class=">spamsucks<"><font 
color="#ff0d00">i</font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>spamsucks<
>spamsucks<<!-- --><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><span class=">screwyouspammer<"><font 
color="#ff1300">s</font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><span class=">spamsucks<"><font 
color="#ff1a00"> </font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><span class=">scrapethis<"><font 
color="#ff2000">i</font></span><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>screwyouspammer<
>ihatespammers<<!-- --><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><font color="#ff2700">s</font><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>ihatespammers<
>spamsucks<<!-- --><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><font color="#ff2d00"> </font><!-- -->
:-) <!-- --><!-- -->>screwyouspammer<


G.
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