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Has Google Broken JavaScript Spam Munging?
Baxil writes "For years now, Javascript munging has been a useful tool to share email addresses on the Web without exposing them to spammers. However, Google is now apparently evaluating Javascript when assembling summary text for web pages' listings, and publishing the un-munged email addresses to the world; and spammers have started to take advantage of this kind service." Anyone else seen this affecting their carefully protected email addresses?
Dear Google:
Welcome to the "Impossible to do anything right" club.
Regards,
Wal-Mart,
Microsoft,
G. W. Bush
WTF? Over?
>The wikipedia page also links to munge - modify until not guessed easily -
> which I guess is what the original person intended
Then the original poster is a chimp and so are you. If you aren't aware that adding ~e may change the meaning of a word, I should come round and rap your ears.
How about "pay to email"?
I register with a pay-to-email site, and give it my actual email address. It gives me my new publicly visible email address. Anyone who wants to can send me an email through this service if they pay me an amount of money that I set. After I receive the email, I can refund the sender. The pay-to-email site takes a 10% cut on all un-refunded emails.
Sound like a winner?
My... GOD... that's genius! Your plan clearly has no flaws. We should implement it right now.
OK, honestly, I was just too lazy to fill out the ubiquitous rejection form.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
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This, of course, is the traditional spelling/grammar flame typo. I think it's a law of nature.