SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)

[James Devenish]

In message <20030704042027.GB18801 at spark.plug.linux.org.au>
on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:20:28PM +0800, Tony Breeds wrote:
> At the moment it's basic as all it does is s/@/_at_/  WHen I move the

If the address is to be displayed in a human-readable form, could you do
something more obscure, like 'goober from cantech'? (surely
harvesters will soon realise what _at_ stands for).

> goober at cantech.net.au =>
> #103;#111;#111;#98;#101;#114;#64;#99;#97;#110;#116;#101;#99;#104;#46;#110;#101;#116;#46;#97;#117;
> 
> Which I understand email harvesters don't like.

(1) I would have thought such as idea would have been based on HTML
character codes or URL encoding. The above example seems to be a blend
on the two and is technically neither. Most humans would get no value
from the above.

(2) If you actually meant to use one of the above-mentioned encoding,
surely that will be utterly ineffective when spammers start using a
stock standard HTML parsers to build their harvesters -- the encoding
won't make a difference.