[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Email addresses in PEPs? (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com
Mon Sep 10 21:06:03 CEST 2007


skip at pobox.com wrote:

Trent> If some would find it useful, here is a snippet of code that Trent> obfuscates email addresses for HTML as done by Markdown (a Trent> text-to-html markup translator). It randomly encodes each Trent> charater as a hex or decimal HTML entity (roughly 10% raw, 45% Trent> hex, 45% dec).

Aren't most spammers' scrapers going to be intelligent enough by now (several years since they first arrived on the scene) to "see through" these sorts of common obfuscations?

Perhaps, yes. No way of really knowing.

Trent

-- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com



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