[thelist] spambot & javascript

[Keith Underdown]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:31:42 +0100, John C Bullas <jcbullas at nildram.co.uk> 
wrote:

> This code goes where you want your mailto:address to appear on the page.
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
> print_mail_to_link()
> </SCRIPT>
>
> works pretty well, the email addresses are NOT visible UNLESS the page is 
> delivered by a browser
>
> URL given looks "fine and dandy" otherwise

What's to stop the spamboot actually being a "browser", i.e. actually 
running the javascript and seeing the rendered page?

Keith

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