hiding e-mail adresses needed badly

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Wed Oct 15 18:54:37 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:13:07 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> I object to any obfuscating of email addresses.  Once we start doing
> that we are no long are easily visible project.  I personlly think

It depends on obfuscating technique.

> Do you really think that email harvesters haven't learned how to deal
> with obfuscated email addresses?  Then there are always the really
> funny ones that put in their webpage:
> <a href="mailto:someone at somedomain.com">someone at somedomain dot com</a>
> Ummm, hello!! you just put your bloody email address in the clear in the
> href!!  Stupid!

That's you say so and nobody else suggest this so far. Most simple way is
using [at] without mailto: at all. More complex way with maximum
functionality and maximum protection:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="achemail.js"></SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT>
ache [at] nagual.pp.ru</NOSCRIPT>

achemail.js:
------------------------------------------------------
emailname = "ache"
emailserver = "nagual.pp.ru"

document.write("<a href='mailto:" + emailname + "@" + emailserver + "'>");
document.write(emailname + "@" + emailserver);
document.write("</a>");
-------------------------------------------------------

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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