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[Analysis & Solutions]

Hi Folks:

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0400, Hans Zaunere wrote:
> 
> > To prevent the harvesting of your or your organization's email address
> > from your web pages, we recommend that you implement one of the
> > two solutions...

Here's a very interesting study about where spammers get their email 
addresses from:

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.pdf

As we all suspected, the main one is web page spiders.  They found that, 
for now, hiding addresses using HTML Character Entities is enough to foil 
the spammers.

I strongly advise against JavaScript solutions, since not all people have 
JavaScript on, let alone, available.

I tend to use a server side form, as others have suggested.  There's an
easy to use, secure, one in my Form Solution class.  All it takes is two
lines to instantiate the class and one line to call the method.  Can't
beat it.  It's available via the link in my signature, below.

By the way, I've overhauled my website and programs.  The site is easier
to navigate, plus the scripts are now open sourced, so go check 'em out!  
I'm polishing off the revisions to the Java version of the Credit Card
Validation Solution at this moment.

Enjoy,

--Dan

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