[Coco] [Color Computer] What the hell is this ==> rjrttyat aoldot com

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:56 AM 5/13/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Roger,
>
>That's not the point here. "user", "domain" and "suffix" are just variables


In my example they weren't.  ;) I wasn't refering to a script.

I mean when people type out the phrase "me at server dot com", any 10 year 
old programmer knows how to write a program that can turn that into 
"me at server.com".

I got more technical when I mentioned people typing things like "you can 
reach me at the big y and I'm cocotower".  Well, since there is a fad going 
around with people using "at the big y", "at the y", "on the a", or "at the 
a", etc., guess what, guys... any 10 year old hacker can match those 
phrases to "@yahoo.com", "@aol.com".  Ofcourse, people use these phrases a 
lot on the dating sites rather than their personal sites.

And for the JavaScript code that George says is foolproof... it's not the 
actual script that's doing anything, it's the server that's translating 
that mangled address into the real one.  Also, the best modern way to avoid 
e-mail address harvesters is to use a script like PHP that makes the 
visitor fill out a form that submits the message to another (or the same) 
PHP script which in turn e-mails the content to the site owner.  Since a 
web script cannot be seen as-is but only what it "renders", the e-mail 
address is definately hidden and there's no other requirements from the server.

Anyway, how about some CoCo talk.  :)

-- 
Roger Taylor