Re: Whimper. Anybody notice huge spam jump??

My understanding was that javascript obfuscation for mailtos had been
widely cracked by spammers quite a while ago, and is no longer reliable.

We require all email links to point to a web-based contact form, and
we encrypt the destination address in the form in unusual ways. As
far as I know, the method has never been cracked by spambots.

Nevertheless, yes, spam rates in general are on a huge uptick
recently, and our web sites are almost never solely responsible for
the distribution of email addresses into spammers' hands.

I also don't want to rely on methods that would require manual
obfuscation - we want to be able to build in methods server-side with
PHP so we can, for example, automatically obscure the email field in
every student resume without lifting a finger.

./s

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Kalonica McQuesten wrote:

> All,
>
> By the way, spam is NOT noticeably out of control on my Enkoder-
> protected live web addresses. It's bumped up a little
> comparatively, but not (yet??) in a way that makes me think they
> broke my code.
>
> Kalonica
>

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