Dan Price wrote:
[snp]
> Linda and team,
> 
> It's REALLY REALLY upsetting that no attempt is made to foil the
> spambots.  For example, in the above link, Stephen's sun email address
> is clearly visible for the spambots of the world to harvest.

Mhhh, I like the idea to have the emails visible, but you're right that
the spambots can easily harvest the email addresses... too easily... ;-(

> Putting my naked email address on the web is something I've tried very
> hard not to do.  I already get 20+ spams (despite Sun's filtering) a day;
> this will almost certainly make things worse.
> 
> Can you address this as a P1/S1 issue, please?

AFAIK a simple conversion to HTML entities should kill-off most of the
spambots (and or use <div> for random-length substrings in the address).
Additionally you can use an alternative unicode representation to
confuse the bots further... :-)
Example code on demand...

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Roland

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