[Mediawiki-l] protect email adresses from bots

Sam Odio sam at bluwiki.com
Fri Dec 1 12:22:33 UTC 2006


> On 11/15/06, Florian Knorn <florian at knorn.org> wrote:
>> Is there an extension to protect email adresses from spambots by  
>> doing
>> some form of automated JavaScript magic? This would concern both
>> Emailadresse that are written in plain as well as using
>> [[mailto:adress at example.com Foo Bar]]...

I'm not familiar with an extension, but you can obfuscate your email  
addresses. See http://alicorna.com/obfuscator.html

I'm not sure if this still works, as I imagine that at some point  
spammers will design bots to defeat it.  But a 2002 study says it  
does (http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml).

-s
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