Feature Proposal: We need a better way to protect addresses from reapers

Motivation

The present method of protecting addresses on TWiki sites exposed to the Internet is to insert a string - NOSPAM - into the address.

Humans can easily see this when copaiong mail and remove it.

In reality, it is easy enough for reapers to have a set of patterns no different from the early spam detectors, and get around this.

Description

The alternative is to use some script or HTML - perhaps charecter references - that makes the address apear visible on a rendered page but uninteligible in the raw.

Impact and Available Solutions

See:

• http://www.december14.net/ways/js/nospam.shtml
• http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/
• http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/spam.htm
• http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/index.php

However I don't have any ideas or suggestiosn for integrating these techniques into TWiki.

-- AntonAylward - 20 Jun 2005

Note: Patch is attached as http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/ObfuscatingEmailAddresses/twiki-foo-bar-patch.diff. The patch is against the TWikiAlphaRelease of 15 Feb 2004.

Discussion: