Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jim,
On Friday 12 November 2004 09:00, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
A few weeks ago someone wrote that to stop the bots from getting your email address off your web site you should use symbols instead of letters ie "ü" means the German ü.
I'm not sure how helpful that technique really is, since HTML character entities (the proper term for these things) are designed for machine processing.
It seems to work reasonably well. I had a couple of email addresses for testing and the one in clear text got a hell of a lot more spam than the encoded one. However... the smarter bots will look for encoded Mailto:'s. So it helps to mix encoded and none encoded text together, just to make it difficult. e.g.: mailto:someone@somewhere.com jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E