#28024 - tomer - Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:16 am
is it - newsⓐgbadev?org?
mod edit: we don't want spambots to pick up the address from this post either so I disguised it a bit -- tepples
#28026 - Krakken - Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:12 am
Uhm... it's clearly available from the main site under contact... you didn't even try did you?
#28037 - tomer - Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:13 pm
are you trying to make me angry? I did try, and for
some reason an email adress such as: news[sat]gbadev.org is not
very understandable.
#28040 - Lord Graga - Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:21 pm
Uhm, doh. It's a standard spam avoidance trick! :P
#28116 - yaustar - Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:17 am
It stops 'spam bots' from collecting email addresses from websites.. typical examples are:
qwerty@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk (remove NOSPAM)
qwertyATyahoo.co.uk
qwerty at yahoo dot co dot uk
etc
And I am sure that Krakken meant it as a tongue in cheek (i hope)....
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#28122 - dagamer34 - Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:13 am
| yaustar wrote: |
It stops 'spam bots' from collecting email addresses from websites.. typical examples are:
qwerty@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk (remove NOSPAM)
qwertyATyahoo.co.uk
qwerty at yahoo dot co dot uk
etc
And I am sure that Krakken meant it as a tongue in cheek (i hope).... |
Some people did not know that, like me. :)
The original post will need to be changed, so that spam bots don't get ahold of it somehow.
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#28138 - tomer - Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:38 am
OK
thanks for the informative information.
cheers, Tomer
#28141 - tepples - Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:52 am
Unicode is your friend. Make a spambot-proof ⓐ with ⓐ
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#28157 - Touchstone - Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:45 pm
Hmm, a bit of-topic but does spam-bots read the source or the rendered webpage? I suppose they read the source to find "click HERE to email me" with a href="mailto:mymail@myserver.com".
Tepples, that unicode doesn't seem to solve anything that cannot be solved by using an image for the @ character, atleast not for me. I couldn't paste your unicode char into my mail-app, it converted the char to an "?".
Edit: Ah, now I see that it isn't even supposed to be an @ character, it's an "a" in a circle. Silly me. :)
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#28160 - getch - Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:52 pm
I would assume that anything that reads html would be able to see inside the <a href="">
That is, unless the person writing the spambot chose to make it unreadable.
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#28170 - sgeos - Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:43 pm
| tepples wrote: |
| Unicode is your friend. Make a spambot-proof ⓐ with ⓐ |
Any security can be twarted. It would probably be easy to scan for strings that contain the ⓐ or @ tokens. I doubt ⓐ is in widespread use, so it's probably safe.
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#28172 - SimonB - Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:40 pm
If you want to submit plain text news and/or demos, please PM me and Ill give you the URL to a register form so you can get access to the updating script I made for visitors of the site. I seem to remember almost finishing it but it would be good if a few people could submit their stuff from it so I know if its ready to go live or not.
Thanks
Simon