obfuscator
converting ascii codes to html
Incorporating email links is one easy way to enhance a web page
However, the benefits can come at a cost: SPAM!
The Internet is literally crawling with
spambots - programs designed to collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists
for sending spam (unsolicited e-mail)
All e-mail addresses have an @ symbol, so writing a spambot is easy
A variety of programs have been devised to foil spambots and below is The Obfuscator,
designed to render your email addresses visible to the human eye and email applications but, hopefully, not spambots
By converting the
ascii
characters of your e-mail into
html
character codes, the simpler spambots will not recognise the addresses you post on your webpages
and if they're not recognised, they are less likely to be spammed
advantage
-
It's easy
All you have to do is type jsmith@nospam.com (or whatever) and then hit the go button - the encoder will do the rest
disadvantage
- It's not bullet proof - it preserves the "mailto" structure and spammers can easily write decoders to reverse the technique
There is a great deal of money to be made from spam, so the vile, nasty low-lifes that write the spambots will - sooner or later - figure a work-around for each and every technique...
moral
- Don't simply rely on ONE technique!
the obfuscator
derby web development
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