[PLUG] email address obfuscation

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:46:44PM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
> Does anyone with recent experience know if this method of obfuscating
> email addresses on web pages still works to frustrate the spam-bots?
> 
> <a href='mailto:J%6Fhn.%
> 44oe@example%2Ec%
> 6Fm'>John.Doe@example.com</a>
> 
> (It encodes "John.Doe at example.com", if my sources are correct)
> 
> It's been around forever, it would seem that the slimeballs would have
> upgraded by now.

I'm lazy.  I use an image.  If I was less lazy, I would rotate
the image 20 degrees, and decorate it with roses and garlands. 
This sounds like a good job for our unemployed slacker artist
friends.  I don't trust any reversable, deterministic algorithm,
and my slacker friends are annoyingly non-deterministic.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com