Sunday, March 07, 2004

Suck on this, spam bots!

Now, ordinarily I don't cotton to "language" expressed by the author of www.billism.com, but check out this potenital 'bot deterrent.

If you don't get it, then you should know that an email address on any web-page will eventually be detected by a web-bot for purposes of gathering addresses for SPAM databases. You need to MUNG your address, such as happyman-AT-hotmail-DOT-com, or even use letter substitution. (hxppymxn@hotmxil.com <--substitute a for x). If you like newsgroups, then you should know that those are web pages now.

Of course, to post your email, you should encode it in javascript, or have it as a picture, like a GIF file. This will create a script version of your email. I could not get the fancy code to work within this blog, though. I did find this to create a code for email addresses. Although this looks like my dog's email address, it isn't: terrahound@hotmail.com
(View source on THAT one!)

I wish Billism all the best of luck

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