This is a little time consuming and you can only test one page at a time, but in the absence of Virtual PC or the like (I'm on a Mac) or having all the browsers & platforms you need you can always test them here. I will usually run a page template through this using a free one-day trial account.
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I mean using the HTML equivalent, so that mailto:joe@server.com is written in the code as
mailto:
I agree that it should be easy to circumvent but apparently it's not happening yet. BTW, there's an OS X program called SpamStopper that does quick translations like this.
A study by the Center for Democracy & Technology in 2002 concluded that by either replacing email addresses with the HTML equivalent or human-readable equivalents like "example at domain dot com" signficantly cut down on spam. From their Major Findings: "E-mail addresses posted to Web sites using these conventions did not receive any spam."
While, yes, it's relativley easy to write a script that would recombine the addresses, apparenlty most harvesters for whatever reason just aren't.
My email address, which is posted online, is 'hidden' in HTML and I get very little spam after many years of having it up.
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This is a little time consuming and you can only test one page at a time, but in the absence of Virtual PC or the like (I'm on a Mac) or having all the browsers & platforms you need you can always test them here. I will usually run a page template through this using a free one-day trial account. http://browsercam.com/ I have no connection to the company, I'm just a satisfied leech.
Free version of NetNewsWire is perfect for me, easy to organize subscriptions and fish through headlines quickly. See the link at the bottom for the free version.
I mean using the HTML equivalent, so that mailto:joe@server.com is written in the code as mailto: I agree that it should be easy to circumvent but apparently it's not happening yet. BTW, there's an OS X program called SpamStopper that does quick translations like this.
A study by the Center for Democracy & Technology in 2002 concluded that by either replacing email addresses with the HTML equivalent or human-readable equivalents like "example at domain dot com" signficantly cut down on spam. From their Major Findings: "E-mail addresses posted to Web sites using these conventions did not receive any spam." While, yes, it's relativley easy to write a script that would recombine the addresses, apparenlty most harvesters for whatever reason just aren't. My email address, which is posted online, is 'hidden' in HTML and I get very little spam after many years of having it up.