[Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:01:09 -0500


>>>>> "PS" == Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@yahoo.com> writes:

    PS> Yes,, but you can encode the "mailto:" as well, like so: <a
    PS> href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#106;&#111;&#101;&#64;&#97;&#111;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;">me</a>

    PS> I would guess most spambots are pretty dumb, probably using a
    PS> silly regex like <a href="mailto:([^"]+)">.

This /is/ kind of interesting.  Anybody want to write a patch?

-Barry