EmailDiscussions.com  

Go Back   EmailDiscussions.com > Miscellaneous > About this site...
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

About this site... Do you have any thoughts, suggestions or comments about this site? Post them here...

Reply
Thread Tools
Unread 8th November 2005, 03:43 AM   #1
Mardeg
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1
Email obfuscation techniques article needs updating?

The article at http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_nospam.htm mentions and links to one obfuscation method at http://www.emailaddresses.com/mailto_encoder.htm
Is is possible for that article to link to other CSS methods of obfuscation? A method I use is here:

http://mardeg.sitesled.com - Generates a random-text logo of an email which uses CSS to shrink it down giving the illusion of normal text.

Some other methods I've come across are:

1. http://www.iross.net/csscaptcha - Uses DIV border styles to build each character of an email address

2. http://verplant.org/obfumail.shtml - Inserts invalid text between SPAN tags with display:none inside the email address

3. http://mathibus.com/tools/obfuscator - Uses Right-to-Left text direction overide style (this can also be done in a BDO tag with the dir="rtl" attribute set)

4. http://lojjic.net/blog/20040123-114122.rdf.html - Bind XBL decoder class for encoded text (Mozilla browsers only)

5. http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/hide_email_spambots/ - Uses after: and content character entities to style the address tag (only visible in non-IE browsers currently)

I added #3 to my own method (about %15 of the time the Generate button is clicked) to improve randomness. #2 and #3 could probably be combined for a method much less bloated than mine and #1.
#4 and #5 unfortunately are ahead of their time and would probably only suit someone hellbent on converting visitors to their site to Firefox
Mardeg is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT +9. The time now is 12:33 PM.

 

Copyright EmailDiscussions.com 1998-2013. All Rights Reserved