[ale]OT It begins...

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Wed Feb 4 08:48:25 EST 2004


I wanted to throw in the possibility (actually, I've mentioned it
before) of changing e-mail addresses to an inline image of the e-mail
address?  I know this invites spammers to go through and OCR images for
e-mail addresses someday, but it's a thought.

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:44, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:52, Chris Farris wrote:
> > If someone wants to write a little perl script that traverses a
> > directory structure, takes each html file, obfuscates any email addrs;
> > writes that file to /tmp/something; then moves that file back into place
> > - I'll run it on the archives. Make sure the file perms are 644. 
> 
> Chris, make a backup first if you care to not leave the archives
> fubar'ed.  In my opinion, based on doing this very same thing elsewhere,
> there is no way to do this without knowing ahead of time which email
> addresses you want obfuscated.  You do not want all emails obfuscated.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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