[Zope] Simple way to obfuscate email addresses to foil spambots?

[Dylan Reinhardt]

I've heard that many spambots are thrown off if you use HTML character
entities instead of punctuation in an email address.  Can't imagine that
hack will work forever, but it's easy enough to implement.

A better approach, of course, is to look into the many fine tools for
filtering spam as it comes in to your mail server.  I get probably 98%
success with SpamAssassin.

HTH,

Dylan


On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:59, Chris Beaumont wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions as the best way to, within Zope,
> obfuscate email addresses such that, when passed an email, a script
> obfuscates it from being picked up by email-address
> collecting robots? 
> 
> Or any other creative anti-spam tricks.. I work at an educational
> nonprofit and our spam load seems to be increasing exponentially..
> 
> Thank you,
> Chris
> 
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