Re: [Zope-dev] [off topic] archives cause spam.
What Guido said. Plus, I've yet to see an email address munging scheme that also meant real users could get the email addresses of someone from the archive.
A recent study suggested that replacing the characters of the address with HTML entities worked pretty well. Don't know how long that'll work (it's not hard to counter), but it's a step ahead for now. --jcc
The Python tool, HTMLgen has had that feature for ages and uses it when it generates a mailto link. Several people have built systems that create a graphic representation of the e-mail address, readable by humans but not by 'bots. On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
What Guido said. Plus, I've yet to see an email address munging scheme that also meant real users could get the email addresses of someone from the archive.
A recent study suggested that replacing the characters of the address with HTML entities worked pretty well. Don't know how long that'll work (it's not hard to counter), but it's a step ahead for now.
--jcc
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