Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Re: mailto:

In article <56ccf68de6tim@timil.com>,
Tim Hill <tim@timil.com> wrote:

> Coincidentally, I have just been adding 'munge' to
> http://timil.com/riscos and IME this conversion of a mailto link into
> entities seems enough to prevent harvesting by spammers. Or the ones that
> do are so useless it doesn't even reach me!

My script required a hidden variable be sent - the variable determines the
script action.

This system appears to defeat spammers - most of the email addresses that
have been spammed seem to have been harvested from computers by malware.

--
Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!

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