- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:42:57 +0100
- To: "Jason Robinson" <jrobinson@kitchenpages.com>
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
* Jason Robinson wrote: >I thought that you may be interested to know that some web browser >components (if not all) can be somewhat decompiled and incorperated into >larger software applications. Using BCB C++ for example I am able to import >the components made for Internet Explorer directly from type libraries for >use in my BCB C++ with a dynamic CLSID call. I would also assume that VB C# >users have the same if not more advanced abilities then that of what I do. Using http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-IE-Mechanize/ and similar tool- kits it is indeed trivial to write robots that support JavaScript and other methods that attempt to obfuscate e-mail addresses. Whether this is used by people who attempt to harvest for addresses is a different question though. But in general I do not really understand why people try all sorts of tricks to get less spam, > 99% of the spam I get gets filtered out automatically, it thus does not matter much whether I get 100 or 2000 spam mails every day... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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