Simple way to obfuscate email addresses to foil spambots?
Does anyone have any suggestions as the best way to, within Zope, obfuscate email addresses such that, when passed an email, a script obfuscates it from being picked up by email-address collecting robots? Or any other creative anti-spam tricks.. I work at an educational nonprofit and our spam load seems to be increasing exponentially.. Thank you, Chris
Some folks use HTML entities although I don't know how effecive they are. Others make up the email address with a sequence of jpgs or gifs. On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Chris Beaumont wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions as the best way to, within Zope, obfuscate email addresses such that, when passed an email, a script obfuscates it from being picked up by email-address collecting robots?
I've heard that many spambots are thrown off if you use HTML character entities instead of punctuation in an email address. Can't imagine that hack will work forever, but it's easy enough to implement. A better approach, of course, is to look into the many fine tools for filtering spam as it comes in to your mail server. I get probably 98% success with SpamAssassin. HTH, Dylan On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:59, Chris Beaumont wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions as the best way to, within Zope, obfuscate email addresses such that, when passed an email, a script obfuscates it from being picked up by email-address collecting robots?
Or any other creative anti-spam tricks.. I work at an educational nonprofit and our spam load seems to be increasing exponentially..
Thank you, Chris
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:02AM -0700, Chris Beaumont wrote: | Or any other creative anti-spam tricks.. I work at an educational | nonprofit and our spam load seems to be increasing exponentially.. spambayes works well for me. (http://spambayes.sf.net) I've also had rather good success with spamassassin in the past. (http://www.spamassassin.org) Oh, and using good constraints at the server level is very helpful too. For example http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt Personally I see about 10-20% of incoming mail rejected at the server, which has one user account. (1172 rejected out of 4065 delivered for last week) -D PS. I don't worry at all about my email address being un-obfuscated, such as in this list's archives. -- A)bort, R)etry, D)o it right this time http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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