Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:10:18 +0100 | From | DaMouse <> | Subject | Re: bkbits - "@" question |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:59:43 +0200, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > * Larry McVoy asked: > > > > The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses. This is > > > > probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce > > > > spam if we did something like s/@/ (at) / for all those > > > > addresses? > > > > > > > > * Christoph Hellwig answered: > > > > No. > > > > > > Why not, please? > > > > Because spambots parse all this replacements anyway, and it makes cut > > & pasting mail addresses if you want to reply to a change much easier. > > Strongly depends on how this is done. Of course, replacing > user@domain.org by user(at)domain.org or even user AT domain DOT org > won't help. However, I wonder what amount of spambots will spot user: > domain org as a valid e-mail address. > > There are also HTML+CSS tricks that should work well. Split the address > over right-floating span elements, these will display in the reverse > order. I doubt that the spambots will get it right. > > I don't think that the cut'n'paste ability argument weights much here. > How often do you do that? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://khali.linux-fr.org/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Why not just have a PHP contact form instead with some of the well known PHP security things in it such as an auth number box or whatnot.
-DaMouse
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