Re: [Gnumed-devel] wiki update 2

[J Busser]

At 11:22 AM +0100 1/15/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > The NOSPAM thing is configurable.
> That is what I put. Have spammers
> > looking for email addresses started to filter out this
> string?
> Sure.
>
> > Maybe we can put something else there.
> Preferably something random.

True. At the twiki "obfuscate" page I referenced a coupla emails ago, they mentioned something along this line, though to pursue may take us away from the work more in need of doing:

> SlashCode now
> supports auto-spamblocking, see
> http://slashdot.org/ for
> details about Slashcode 2.2 - they rotate the spam blocking algorithm
> every day, which may be a good idea although it's obviously more
> work

Would this help from http://www.rahji.com/spam.php3 :

> > Another way
> > to write your email address in an HTML page in a way that might
> > confuse robots but will look normal to humans is to replace the @ in
> > your email address with an ampersand, followed by #64; (ie:
> > ampersand-pound-six-four-semicolon). The browser will render it as an
> > @ sign so it will look normal to readers of your web page. Try
> > it.

they also mention

> > With very
> > little perl knowledge you could write a script that converts email
> > addresses on your page to the human-readable equivalents I described
> > way at the top of this page:  jjx3 at rahji dot
> > com
> > Start with
> > these substitutions in perl: s/\./ dot /g; s/@/ at /g;
> > >
> > [Any]
> > "mailto:" link[s can be encoded into] into hex. I don't know
> > if it really fools many email-grabbing robots but I suspect it might
> > since most of this kind of software is written by crappy programmers.
> > To convert an email address to its hex equivalent, apply this perl
> > substitution to it: s/(.)/ sprintf('%%%2x',ord($1))
> > /ge
> > This would
> > make an address like address@hidden look like
> > %6a%6a%78%33%40%72%61%68%6a%69%2e%63%6f%6d, which works perfectly
> > fine as part of a "mailto:" link in any browser I've seen.
> > Strange but true. If you find a browser that this doesn't work with,
> > let me know.