Spam-proof e-mail in articles?

timjcoulter · 2005-04-28 22:44:05

Is there a spam-proof way to use e-mail links in articles? I want to use something like <txp:email>, but in an article, not a page template, and Textile chokes on Textpattern tags. Is there a Textile equivalent?

Jeremie · 2005-04-29 00:20:12

Yes, link to a HTML form that send an email. That’s the only way.

Kibitzer · 2005-04-29 00:52:24

I’ve placed a tag like this in an article, with no problems:

(txp:email email=“me@nowhere.com” linktext=“Email me”/)

(round brackets used so it shows up in the forum)

Last edited by Kibitzer (2005-04-29 00:53:37)

Mary · 2005-04-29 01:05:59

Yeah, the tag Kibitzer mentioned
<txp:email email="menowhere.com” linktext=“Email me” />@
works fine in articles, at least for me.

Jeremie · 2005-04-29 01:33:22

It’s not spam proof, it’s dumb spambots proof for the time being :)

If any kind of last-end user UA can handle the % encoding, why people might think a spambot can’t do the same ? That’s beyond me.

Mary · 2005-04-29 02:09:47

Because spammers are lazy.

Jeremie · 2005-04-29 02:58:21

I know it, and as I said “it’s dumb spambots proof for the time being”. They are not as dumb as this, and it will not last.

heikki74 · 2005-10-07 16:18:19

It’s not spam-proof. I have an experiment going on and it seems that all (only two so far) emails have gone through.
Simple javascript encoder hasn’t failed yet. I wish there was more traffic, so I could really test this.

Does anyone else have real data related to this?

Jeremie · 2005-10-12 03:27:47

Only brain suffice. You’re welcome to use false encoding on your websites for your emails, but please don’t ask the dev team to implement something dangerous for our emails.

heikki74 · 2005-10-12 04:57:08

Danger is my middle name..
Seriously – maybe the text “Email link (spam-proof)” should be changed in txp -> presentation -> pages?

Results so far
Plain email link: 3
Txp style encoded link: 2
Simple javascript: 0

Final email link looks like this in all versions:
<code><a href=“mailto:me@here.com”>me@here.com</a></code>

Niconemo · 2005-10-12 06:58:07

> heikki74 wrote:

> Final email link looks like this in all versions:
<code><a href=“mailto:me@here.com”>me@here.com</a></code>

What do you mean ? When I use txp in an article tag final email link looks like this :
<code><a href=”mailto:me@here.com”>Email me</a></code>
I know it is not the best protection but it does what it is supposed to do, no ?

heikki74 · 2005-10-12 08:53:37

Sorry.. it wasn’t very clear sentence. This is what I ment to say
What I did use for test was

Plain email link:
<code><a href=“mailto:me@here.com”>me@here.com</a></code>

Txp style encoded link (almost, except the link text is also encoded email address):
<code><a href=”mailto:me@here.com”>me@here.com</a></code>

Simple javascript:
<code><script language=“javascript”>
<!—
ML=“h<m\”@acfo =le.t>i:/r”;
MI=“1590C<7:325@;>8A2<40<C<=6823?2<40<C<=6821B5?”;
OT=”“;
for(j=0;j<MI.length;j++){
OT+=ML.charAt(MI.charCodeAt(j)-48);
}document.write(OT);
// —></script>

Last edited by heikki74 (2005-10-12 08:56:01)

Jeremie · 2005-10-12 18:59:54

Niconemo wrote:
I know it is not the best protection but it does what it is supposed to do, no ?

No.

It is supposed to protect from spam bot. It doesn’t.

Niconemo · 2005-10-12 19:18:14

Yes I understand that. You’re right, no doubt. ;)
(it would be better if there was a random coding as here
and the only 100% safe way is a mail form)

It was just about heikki74’s message I hadn’t understood…

This is also intersting (sorry it’s in French) : you can see exactly the e-mail adresses a bot can find in one page. Txp e-mail coding is considered as “trivial” (and easily decoded ofc course).

So now… Who will make a plugin out of that ? ;-)

Last edited by Niconemo (2005-10-12 19:26:44)

heikki74 · 2005-11-21 06:08:16

Ok.. I’m ending my experiment now. Too much spam is getting through when spam-assasin is turned off.
I also found a site about spam harvesters: Project Honey Pot.

My results: (duplicates are included)
Plain email link: 18
Txp style encoded link: 6
Simple javascript: 0

See earlier messages for explanation.

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