Spam harvester armor

Went looking for some ways to post an e-mail address on a page in an armored fashion - hard to impossible for a spam-bot to harvest (via obfuscation, armoring, encryption), easy for humans to use.

Found these links:

• Obfuscate Email Address With Javascript Rot13

• Email Protector

  Uses actual encryption

• Surprising tricks that make AdWords boost your e-business (see the section "E-BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: BETTER SPAM-PROOF ADDRESSES")

  Several different types of obfuscation, in use on authors high-traffic site

• Hiveware (recommended by previous link)

• ECM--Email Countermeasures

  This form takes your e-mail address and converts it into the ISO-Latin-1 code for each character. It then makes a big array of those codes. Your email will appear as 60, 97, 32, 104, 114, 101, 102, 61, 34, 109, 97, 105, 108, 116, 111, 58, 116, 105, 109, 109, 121, 119, 64, 97, 108, 111, 104, 97, 46, 110, 101, 116, 34, 62, 116, 105, 109, 109, 121, 119, 64, 97, 108, 111, 104, 97, 46, 110, 101, 116, 60, 47, 97, 62 to an email harvesting progam

Written by Andrew Ittner in misc on Sat 11 October 2003. Tags: programming, web