- From: Marjolein Katsma <access@javawoman.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:01:51 +0200
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Charles, At 09:25 2001-06-05 -0700, Charles F. Munat wrote: >One thing that no-one seems to have mentioned in this thread is the problem >with email address scraping. Not really a proble if you know how to fool the scrapers. They need a "text" email address in your page source) code. All you need to do is to URL-encode the email address (even partially: just encoding the '@' would already fool most crapers); most email clients (as opposed to scraping robots) have no problem with it. (Some links checkers do - ignore them.) In fact, this is *so* easy (and well-published) I did not even think of mentioning it. Once your address has been scraped, it's precious little use "hiding" it though: it just gets passed around by spammers - on those fancy CD's you get al the spam about! Cheers, Marjolein Katsma HomeSite Help - http://hshelp.com/ Bookstore for Webmasters - http://hshelp.com/bookstore/bookstore.html
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