Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: Program to create human-readable email, but not read by PCs
I'm helping another organization to avoid spam. Right now, their email is all over their
website. A good solution is to use webmail via drupal or CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, I am
not familiar with webmail, drupal, etc. A quick and dirty solution is to post all the email
using "challenge-like" pictures. CAPTCHA is "close" - I'm interested in generating
picture of emails, but not interested in users responding. Are there any programs
out there that will create human-readable emails, but not readable by computers?
Are there other tricks to avoid email spams? I just want to do a quick-n-dirty fix
- not have to learn webmail, drupal, etc.
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: Program to create human-readable email, but not read by
shengchieh wrote:
I'm helping another organization to avoid spam. Right now, their email is all over their
website. A good solution is to use webmail via drupal or CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, I am
not familiar with webmail, drupal, etc. A quick and dirty solution is to post all the email
using "challenge-like" pictures. CAPTCHA is "close" - I'm interested in generating
picture of emails, but not interested in users responding. Are there any programs
out there that will create human-readable emails, but not readable by computers?
Are there other tricks to avoid email spams? I just want to do a quick-n-dirty fix
- not have to learn webmail, drupal, etc.
Thank in advance for your help.
Sheng-Chieh
I don't understand what it is exactly that you're asking. An email not readable by a computer? Huh? If a computer can't read an email neither can a human, because they are using a computer if they are using email. And if a computer can't read it, how does a computer generate it?
Another idea was to change the characters in the email.
These ideas are not fully spam-proof (as spammers often use
cheap human laborers to catch anything interesting) but
these methods should reduce spams significantly.
Another idea was to change the characters in the email.
These ideas are not fully spam-proof (as spammers often use
cheap human laborers to catch anything interesting) but
these methods should reduce spams significantly.
Sheng-Chieh
Oh. You were wanting to obfuscate email addresses on the site, not the email messages themselves. I just didn't understand that from your first message.
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