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Re: Re: [OT] Kenneth's pet project!


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Re: [OT] Kenneth's pet project!
  • From: "K. C. Li" <li@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:16:24 +0100 (BST)
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:

>> Can the bots read this?
>
> If it's common, then yes, some will, same with the Javascript trick
too.

Indeed. E-mail harvesting robots are only programs and they, and spamming
programs, are getting more intelligent. It is straightforward to embed
java/javascript/perl/etc functionalities into them if that would increase
their e-mail address yield.

The only sure way at the moment is to display e-mail addresses as a
graphics file but without the related HTML (and plaintext)
"mailto" tag.
Decoding a graphics file, recognising and translating it into an e-mail
address is much harder.

Regards,

Kwong Li
li@xxxxxxx
Laser Business Systems Ltd.
http://www.laser.com



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