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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: www/contact
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-15 9:38:35
Message-ID: 200503151038.37986.mueller () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:33, George Staikos wrote:

>    I have code that uses javascript and onclick to "decode" the email
> address from an "encrypted" version based on a fixed key.  It seems to work
> well, though it does require JS to be enabled and available.

Correct, and that excludes most text-based webbrowsers and 
accessibility-browsers. I'm not sure if thats worth it. At least this way to 
disguise the email address is fully portable across all browsers. 

> We get 
> surprising little spam on those addresses.

Yes, its probably the only "really" safe way. Another possibility would be a 
server side php script that decodes the email address if the webclient 
establishes a trustable session (e.g. sends a good HTTP Referrer and is 
willing to accept and reproduce a HTTP cookie). Its been reported that those 
web crawler bots don't do that. 

Alternatively only display the email address in an image :/

Anyway, this is good enough to hide the address from typical virus worms and 
similiar. Its better than the "foo at kde dot org" anyway. 


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Dirk//\
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