On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 02:57, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > BBC's Click OnLine did an informal test of how e-mail addresses get > listed for receiving spam. They found that the most effective way was > when the address occurred in a web page. > <snip> > My e-mail address in a web page is: > <script type="text/javascript"> > <!-- <eyes go funny!></eyes funny> > //--> > </script>
If I wanted to harvest only legitimate email addresses perhaps I'd make a website where people could submit them. ;-) I saw what was probably the same study so made a little pascal program that takes a comma-delimited text file and generates a javascript file with a case statement for each name/address provided by the text file, using nested arrays to avoid having anything a bot is likely to read. The javascript file can be linked to from the head of each web page and email links placed with a call such as ... <script language="javascript">johnDoe('IanStephen','Ian Stephen')</script> Which would give a link displaying "Ian Stephen". The visible text of the link can be the email address (default, just omit the second parameter) or a string you pass. Much easier to use for more than one or two instances than the eye-straining output from that on-line tool. Now off to dissect that example you sent and figure out just how it works! -- Ian Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users