E-mail addresses in FAQs--SPAM bait?

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Neyir Cenk Gokce (gokce@canadamail.com)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:59:42 +0200


Hi,

I hope this is not a FAQ, but :-)

I need/want to include some people's e-mail addresses in the FAQ, (both in
the acknowledgement section, and elsewhere) but I am reluctant to use
<userid@foo.bar> kind of construct. Granted it is not a full mailto: tag,
it nevertheless is prone to be "harvested" by spam-bots. I definitely hate
UCE, so I don't want to be a party to promoting it.

How do you do it? Will a spam-bot be smart enough to substract spaces, for
instance, as in:

<userid @ foo.bar>

or should I resort to using:

<userid(at)foo.bar>

On a related matter, do you think it is inadvisable to use mailto: tags in
the Webbified versions? Does anybody have an idea about the effectiveness
of html harvesters' parsing of e-mail addresses from web pages?

thanx.

--Cenk
[misc.immigration.canada] FAQ-in-process :-)
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