[epub] Re: Faked email addresses

[Will Bontrager <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 7/13/2003 02:24 AM +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/gqsn
>
> this is JavaScript ... how do those with js turned off and thos who are
> blind 'see' this?

Email links on a web page used with the Master Spambot Buster system use 
JavaScript. Email links in ezines or any other non-web page media that use 
the system, do not need to use JavaScript.

The reason web pages need to use JavaScript is because using the ezine 
format of link causes a few of the browsers tested to present either a 
blank page or one with the "Page found" message. This could be confusing. 
The JavaScript prevents that from happening.

For non-JavaScript browsers, you might provide a graphic with an image of 
your email address represented within it. Or, NOSCRIPT tags with the 
non-web page form of the Master Spambot Buster URL, along with a note that 
non-JavaScript enabled browser should use that link instead. Or, instead of 
the non-web page link, the NOSCRIPT link could go to a contact form.

I do not know how best to accommodate sight impaired users. If a browser or 
other assistance software can decode, decrypt, or construct your email 
address on your web page, then spammer's harvesting robots can be coded to 
do that, too. Robots are software just like browsers are.

Although not a specialist, I would suppose the Master Spambot Buster system 
would work on a web page wherever a mailto: link would otherwise work and 
provided the browser or assistance software is JavaScript enabled. Links in 
non-web page media should work, again provided that a mailto: link would 
otherwise work. If the mailto: link would not work and the software is not 
JavaScript enabled, a link to a contact form may be the best solution.

Sincerely,

Will




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