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may want to fix your post, just to make sure you don't get any spammy junk... please edit your profile and put your email address in the email field.

• ivankirigin 18y ago
  Does this really make a difference? Are there any studies of gmail with addresses that are hidden vesus those with plain text email addresses for bots? The critical number is the false negative/positive amount, not the absolute number of spam. And surely spammers can already find ivan[at]tipjoy[dot]com
  • anatomyads 18y ago
    A good way to stop spam is using JavaScript to ROT13 encrypt the address. This way you can display it in plain text, but when a bot looks to search through the source on a page it just sees JavaScript jibberish. TextMate can do this for you automatically. For a site, you could just have a small back end script that looks for an email address in standard format and then encrypts it. You get something like this: <script type="text/javascript">document.write( "nneba\100nangbzlnqf\056pbz".replace(/[a-zA-Z]/g, function(c){return String.fromCharCode((c<="Z"?90:122)>=(c=c.charCodeAt(0)+13)?c:c-26);})); </script>
    • ivankirigin 18y ago
      My point is asking whether any of this is worth it.
  • vnorby 18y ago
    Ahh, I've been looking for that one for quite some time. Thanks! </spambot>