[ILUG] [TOTD] Your e-mail as a small PNG

[Justin Mason]

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Dave O Connor writes:
> Lee Hosty said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:16:51PM +0100:
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Dave O Connor wrote:
> > 
> > > Barry O'Donovan said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:59:06PM +0100:
> > > >
> > > > text2gif -t "name at domain.com" | convert -border 1x1 -bordercolor
> > > > "#000000" -negate - png:name.png
> > > >
> > >
> > > I always find that a tiny CGI on your webserver, which when hit issues a 302
> > > redirect to a mailto: link works a treat. That way, console/ssh nerds can just
> > 
> > How does that stop spammers harvesting your address? Do you run the
> > REMOTE_ADDR through a whitelist or something?
> > 
> It seems to work for me. Most spam programs tend not to be very clever about
> harvesting addresses from HTTP headers.

I like the Hiveware enkoder --
http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform/ . It stores the data
in the webpage as obfuscated javascript, but once rendered by a
JS-capable browser, is an entirely normal mailto: link.

- --j.
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