[thelist] Hiveware email address encoder

rudy rudy937 at rogers.com
Fri Jul 25 19:42:53 CDT 2003


> >for example, this is one situation where text-as-gif is a great idea
> >
> I just have to troll this one....
>     Where is the accessability unless you put the address in the alt
> tag? At which time it will be picked up by bots.  ;)

code the alt attribute the same way you would code the NOSCRIPT

see my previous post


> That is gonna start to stink when this
> lazy American wants to send you valuable feedback. :)

this is indeed where i differ from the accessibility naz^H^H^H advocates

some suggest that you must incur spam in order to mollycoddle every single
last one of these visitors

i'm simply saying that there's a balance, a cost/benefit balance, between
the lost sales of a few lazy/dumb visitors and the tremendous cost of
opening the spam floodgates


> What are you, the White House or something?
> (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/living/6330165.htm)

no, i'm a competent large-volume email user
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-07-23-email_x.htm


;o)



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