[thelist] Email Obfuscation may be beaten?

[John C Bullas]

At 22:45 31/01/2004, you wrote
>on 30/01/2004 13:59 John C Bullas (soton.ac.uk relay) wrote:
>
>>>>>http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/email_obfuscation_for_spambots/spambot_03.php 
>>>>>
>>can you post the script (or make it available) for us to use locally?

quick question....

where does thetargetaddress at somedomain.com go?
between the quotes in $encoded=""

if so, how does this get around bots that read files as plain text files 
and sees the source

FB

Sorry, I am confused


>My pleasure.
>
><?php
>
>function ascii_encode($str){
>         global $encoded;
>         $encoded="";
>     for ($i=0; $i < strlen($str); $i++){
>         $encoded .= '&#'.ord(substr($str,$i)).';';
>     }
>     return;
>}
>
>if ($submit){
>         ascii_encode($myemail);
>         $link = "<a href=\"mailto:$encoded\">$encoded</a>";
>         $display=htmlentities($link);
>         print ("<p>$display</p>");
>}
>
>print ("<form action=\"$PHP_SELF\" method=\"post\">");
>print ("<input type=\"Text\" name=\"myemail\">");
>print ("<input type=\"Submit\" name=\"submit\">");
>print ("</form>");
>
>?>
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