Bad spam, bad.

In my ongoing effort to fight spam, and after reading that the JavaScript hack (as used here), the modification of the mailto: address (as used on Mella's site), and the conversion to Unicode have ALL been worked around by serious spammers, I tried my hand at something a little better (in my opinion anyway - see below).

So stupidly confident am I in my 30 minutes of coding, I dare the world to send me an email =)

One thing I have learnt - I really need to learn a programming language PROPERLY, this guess-work and basic know-how can only get me so far.

The code processes the email address as stored in an array, linked to the username you send it, to work as quietly as possible I have it opening a new window, doing its business, then closing that window. There is no way I can see a spammer getting the email address unless they copy it from the final Mail window which opens, which (in my mind) is an unavoidable flaw that plagues all anti-spamming hacks. One thing's for sure, it can NOT be crawled and then re-assembled or filtered, because the posted link does not reflect an actual address nor re-assemble to one. If you want to be extra careful I'd use the mailto: modification along with this, and if you want to be SUPER extra careful get JavaScript to write out the link!

If you want the script let me know.

Justin | 4:16 AM