[COMP] Re: Admin: Privacy issues Anti-Harvest
- To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:58:11 -0500
John this may or may not work for email but I am told it will work with
sites
Protect Your Email From Spam Robots (Fajar Siswandaru)
Spam robots are spider scripts that harvest all the email addresses they can
find in Web pages. With the current high activity of these robots, you may
want to protect your email addresses from them. The following script is an
example of how you can do that:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
// EMAIL HIDER
// Code written by Fajar Siswandaru
// fajar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
function showemail() {
var name = "fajar";
var host = "bdg.centrin.net.id";
var delim = "\@";
var href = 'mailto:';
var text = '\<a href="' + href + name + delim + host + '">';
document.write(text);
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
Put this script in the head of your Web page. (Make sure, of course, that
you change the email address to your own.) Instead of including a mailto:
URL in your pages, you can use a link like this:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
showemail()
</SCRIPT>
Email Me!</A>
Note that the script above creates the opening tag. The reason I left out
the "Email Me!" text and the closing tag is to let you replace the anchor
text with other words or pictures. For even more protection, you may want to
put the showemail() function in a .js file.
Russell Griechen
----- Original Message -----
#From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:51 PM
Subject: [COMP] Re: Admin: Privacy issues
> > > Ya, but if people spamming the list directly ever got to be a problem,
> > > I'd just turn on the 'confirm' subscribe mode, which would force them
to
> > > have a valid email address, and a nice way for me to track them down.
> > >
> >
> > Good point. But to play devils advocate here we both know
> > that spammers aren't always entirely unsophisticated.
>
> Argh, true, unfortunately...
>
> > There is nothing stopping them from setting up a fraudulent
> > dialup account, implementing some already-tested scripts and
> > doing it from there. They do it all the time and couldn't
> > care less about getting their accounts cancelled because the
> > account was stolen in the first place. Easy come, easy go.
>
> Really, when it comes right down to it, all I can do is get the headers
> and forward it to their ISP anyway. It doesn't really matter *how*
> they've sent the spam, I just have to deal with it. The issue here is
> how we can prevent them from coming up with email addresses...
>
> > > This brings up an interesting idea. First, I wonder if Listar (the
> > > engine) has that capability built into it. Further though, I wonder
if
> > > it could be done by providing complete anonymity by having all
messages
> > > from the subscriber be posted as "Anonymous" or something. I'll have
to
> > > ask...
> > >
> >
> > But everyone talking on a list shouldn't be anonymous. When perusing
> > the headers don't you look at the name of the person who wrote it?
>
> Well, not everyone would be anonymous, of course, just the few or many
> that feel the need to be. And we could still show their names, just
> anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or something for their email. And no, I don't
> look for the name of the person that sent it while perusing headers -- a
> lot of people leave out their name, or just put in "Max" or something...
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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