e-mail address obfuscation

orinoco, 11.02.2006 14:44

obfuscation of e-mail addresses and mailto: links in webpages

I recognized that e-mail addresses on de.indymedia.org are obfuscated by putting KEINSPAM. in front of the e-mail address in order to prevent Spam.
But there are better ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses.
I have developed a PHP function which translates e-mail addresses from plain ascii into randomly chosen, equivalent HTML-entities.

e.g.  test@example.com could become
test@example.com

The advantage: it's still a valid e-mail address browsers interpret it correctly, but common Spam harvester don't recognize them.

Of course it's still a obfuscation and not an encryption, but it needs more sophisticated harvesting programs and increases the work of the harvesters, that need to translate the e-mail addresses.

anyone of the mir-developers interested?

e-mail:: orinocox@go.cc