>It was called [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the spams are very clearly archived. And
>it did get hit pretty hard towards the end.

Holy mackeral, that's a lot of spam!

I did a correlation check against my control lists (and java-linux
just for good measure) and one of your last ten spams appeared on
another list. That spam was from a pre-antispambot harvest. So, I
suspect the vast majority of your list's spam was not due to
mail-archive.com exposure.

>Actually you can probably liberate some code. The bonsai code over at
>mozilla.org uses javascript to do exactly this. They display email
>addresses as foo%bar.com and dynamically convert it to a usable mailto:

Hmm... what a horrible solution, deliberately ignoring straightforward
w3c compatibility standards, adding an unnessary indirection,
increasing system complexity, and requiring a vastly more
sophisticated client. My engineering sensibilities are apalled. (They
keep suggesting shooting the spammers.)

But that may be the way to go. Especially if I can put the obfuscated
email address in the mailto: and just have a javascript function
automagically do the conversion. After a quick look at bansai it was
not obvious to me what they were doing (they seem to have javascript
and a cgi program joined at the hip for this + some added
functionality.)  I don't suppose you'd be interested in providing a
pure javascript code example?

Another thing I was thinking of was providing email addresses
as jeff<strong>@</strong>jab.org without a mailto: link. Think that
would be as effective as jeff%jab.org and cause less confusion?

Jeff

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