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Hitman84
hunter
Username: Hitman84
Post Number: 257
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 5:35 pm: |     |
My favorites:
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
- Richard Dawkins |
Thales
gatherer
Username: Thales
Post Number: 177
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 11:09 am: | |
Google executes JavaScript.
My email address is displayed to humans as plaintext on my homepage, but in the source it is encrypted in a simple way, and when the page is loaded, a short JavaScript program decrypts the address. The idea was that robots used by spammers don't execute JavaScript code, and my address would be safe. Yesterday it occurred to me to check if Google sees it, and sure enough, it does, and when that is so, other robots might see it as well. Now I may have to find a new way to hide my address. I know it could be done with PHP, but there are reasons why I don't like that. Perhaps I can make the address invisible, but it would still be a working link.
I am ready to start writing. I have already sharpened my cursor. |
Hitman84
hunter
Username: Hitman84
Post Number: 262
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 10:44 am: | |
Thales,
---My email address is displayed to humans as plaintext on my homepage---
Why don't you upload an image of your e-mail address? 
Whatever a human can do so can the spider bot. But I'm not sure if it can recognize e-mail id in an image. It would be even better if the image contains handwritten text.
Chessgames.com uses a similar method where in just the @ symbol is displayed as an image.
"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
- Richard Dawkins |
Thales
gatherer
Username: Thales
Post Number: 178
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 2:07 pm: | |
"Why don't you upload an image of your e-mail address?"
That would not work as a link. You need text for that.
It would be a separate file, and might not get copied when someone copies a particular html file where I want the address to be available.
I have been told that Google is trying to recognize text in images, so that they could index those, too. Spammers may follow.
Now the pages don't show the address, but it's decrypted when the link is clicked to send email. I hope this will make things a bit more difficult for bots. We'll see.
I am ready to start writing. I have already sharpened my cursor. |
Matera
gatherer
Username: Matera
Post Number: 163
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 3:01 am: | |
I have taken to using a doubly-coded mail-to, both javascript and ISO 8859-1 codes. So far so good. Though a Google search for (me) (at) (my addy) does return one site, it doesn't display the address.
Using a contact form is supposed to be safer. I expect we will all have to carry virtual guns before long anyway lol
"A drum is empty always, and when the skin is rightly taut it gives right noise, right sound. Attention is like that."
~ Krishnamurti |
Thales
gatherer
Username: Thales
Post Number: 180
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 1:51 pm: | |
Matera, can you show an example? I tried to post mine, but it gets corrupted in preview.
I am ready to start writing. I have already sharpened my cursor. |
Matera
gatherer
Username: Matera
Post Number: 164
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 12:22 am: | |
Cheeses Steak Rice! (sorry, Kerensa) It is not easy to demo code here. This is an e-mail include from my main site:
<script language="JavaScript"> <!--
document.write ('<a href="mai')
document.write ('08;to:matera')
document.write ('@')
document.write ('firefromthesky')
document.write ('.')
document.write ('org">')
document.write ('matera @ firefromthesky.org</a>')
// -->
</script>
Un-ticking the "Enable HTML code" box helps, she muttered sullenly.
"A drum is empty always, and when the skin is rightly taut it gives right noise, right sound. Attention is like that."
~ Krishnamurti |
Thales
gatherer
Username: Thales
Post Number: 181
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:10 am: | |
Thank you, Matera. Of course, I could and should have said that my solution can be found here:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/thales/palaute.htm
Comments are in Finnish only, but the code is very simple.
I am ready to start writing. I have already sharpened my cursor. |
Matera
gatherer
Username: Matera
Post Number: 165
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:50 am: | |
Ha, nice one.
"A drum is empty always, and when the skin is rightly taut it gives right noise, right sound. Attention is like that."
~ Krishnamurti |
Don
flint knapper
Username: Don
Post Number: 1264
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 10:04 am: | |
My email is in plain text open to bots and whatever, and yes, I get spam, but gmail sorts it pretty well.
I don't have any anti-virus software installed, and have never had a computer virus. Of course, I have a mac ;-)
I also have my real name and home address on the web, and the axe murderers haven't shown up yet...
Don
take what you want and pay for it |
Cavebear
healer
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 3411
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 6:35 am: | |
Both my previous Windows Netscape email and my current Mac email seem to be pretty good at detecting spam and junk mail. I haven't had any problems for a few years.
Thank you, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins... |
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