Re: [Paddlewise] email address harvesting

From: Merlin Emrys <memrys_at_telecomreseller.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:48:35 -0700
At 03:42 PM 3/6/2002 Kirk Olsen wrote:
>At 03:19 PM 3/5/02 -0800, Steve wrote:
> >The other option could be to start a
> >Commercial notice forum similar to the one started on the Greenland forum.
> >It gives folks the option to check out the commercial side of things.  Or
> >not.
>
>My disagreement with the layout of the qajaqusa site is the email 
>addresses of those
>posting are accessable  - leaving them fodder for spammable email address 
>harvesting scum.

It is entirely possible to encode these email addresses using 
javascript.  They will work correctly, but will be unharvestable.  I do 
this at my own website, and for all those I design and/or maintain.

Visit http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress/ for more info.

-merlin

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