> I don't want to rain on your parade, but I'd be very > surprised if an email harvesting bot would be intelligent > enough to parse that javascript and suck up the generated > output. Remember that the Javascript has to be processed > client side. > > I might be wrong though. I know people do sometimes use JS > document.write to protect email addresses from harvesters, > and it could be that some of them are keeping up in the arms > race.
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