On Wed 08 Sep 2004 15:28, Dave O Connor wrote:
> > On Wed 08 Sep 2004 15:07, you wrote:
> > > Neat. Pretty useless for people who read mail with
> > > mutt/elm/pine/mh/whateverthehell, and don't want to be bothered
> > > saving and then viewing images.
> >
> > It's meant for use on webpages. ie. linux.ie adds ".nospam" to an
> > address to stop SPAM bots harvesting addresses. These and other
> > varients of "hiding" an e-mail address can be replaced with these
> > images.
>> I hear links to CGIs can go on the web now, too.
WTF? Really? Thanks for that trail-blazing nugget of information Dave.
Forgive my sarcasm but it's off-topic and sarcastic replies like this
that get my blood boiling.
I quoted you as saying:
> > > Neat. Pretty useless for people who read mail with
> > > mutt/elm/pine/mh/whateverthehell, and don't want to be bothered
> > > saving and then viewing images.
And then I proceeded to reply to THAT point. I didn't refer in any way
to your idea about the use of CGIs, good or bad.
Secondly:
> Yes, but then you have an email address in your HTML. I doubt
> spammers really go though webpages and attempt to read them,
> they just run pattern matches against HTML. So if I have
> <IMG SRC="myemailaddress.png" ALT="blah at blah.com">,
> it's no better then just usign a mailto: link.
A lot of people have said this. And as I've already stated, you'd use
the ".nospam" version in the ALT tag.
B.
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