SPAM factoid...

[Roger Oberholtzer]

BBC's Click OnLine did an informal test of how e-mail addresses get
listed for receiving spam. They found that the most effective way was
when the address occurred in a web page. They concluded that the address
harvesters seemed to crawl the web looking for addresses. Just sending
e-mail was not the way the address was harvested. They had a neat trick
to encode e-mail addresses in a bit of obscure JavaScript that would
simple be ignored by harvesters. My e-mail address in a web page is:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var x="function f(x,y){var i,o=\"\",l=x.length;for(i=0;i<l;i++){if(i<16)y++;" +
"y%=127;o+=String.fromCharCode(x.charCodeAt(i)^(y++));}return o;}f(\"wf{tmrr" +
"q\\001E\\r_\\000P[NB\\021[\\037[\\010\\024\\025\\024VV\\006D\\023RZ.&6+h){(" +
"$r=#%!+g(\\1771;5'\\0258<<\\033/t1qnSHC^\\\\TO\\034\\034\\033\\023\\020\\02" +
"4FS\\027K\\035YN\\030N\\013\\024\\031\\r\\031\\023T\\030W{|\\177ekw.n5e':7d" +
"02 *{>9<mx3$b5\\177u\\177maU\\nJ\\r\\036[UM]_YB\\rA\\001CDP@@G\\036\\007\\0" +
"24VV\\022\\007 at X\\027bhwth\\031d9<1!(2\\023\\177}`\\r\\016bde\\n\\013\\026\\"+
"007\\032\\026\\010\\005\\000\\03010\\037RVU:;*##)\\022X\\\\_,-BBD)*\\002533" +
"6HMN\\\\]U at 556[TLx5}xtx$L'Y<d! )EF}dy13qYLG\\003COT_O[\\\\^m\\032\\036\\000" +
"mn\\003\\007\\005jk\\016\\t\\ng`\\n\\017\\017\\034\\035tqt\\031\\032qzy\\02" +
"6\\027|\\177~\\023\\014dbc\\010\\teeh\\005\\006lnm\\002\\003SRR?88VWX56_^]2" +
"3GCB/(EFG$%NHL!\\\"W223XY148UV=<=RS !\\\"OHaJKvEF_%D+/\\020}~\\024\\024\\02" +
"5z{\\033\\033\\032wp\\035\\037\\037lm\\005\\004\\005ij\\010YGI\\017\\t\\000" +
"\\035\\000gb?e{p\\032e\\024\\025qeob\\022mx7/h;u8%--?)!fwvKJ\\033K:L\\017O\\"+
"034(\\017\\017\\003.\\034\\016\\030\\022\\\\\\013\\\\\\020\\022\\030;\\013\\"+
"033\\023?\\020\\021rg,djlts[4!d7:<>-4k(&(<n10c0)*6!I\\tDJ_\\014\\r\\014A\\0" +
"22F\\027E\\026\\036\\022Y\\031@\\\\R\\016^C_W_W\\022E\\003Sl\\035`\\037fx)k" +
"!i8*:6g6|)z5t;9>,:4.:\\177w\",16)"                                           ;
while(x=eval(x));
//-->
</script>

I have yet to see how I can get all places with my address like this. But e-mail
harvesters do not see an address here. Pop it in an HTML block and see my address.

There is a web site that will generate these for you. If interested, I can look
it up. Note that as I can only control local instances of this, I still get far
too many spam per day...

Maybe the SxS could encode e-mail addresses?