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Read me!

[2007-08-10] Since 2003 many homepages' editors use Spam-me-not (and similar tools) to obfuscate email links. By now, spammers' harvesting robots have the capability of reading those obfuscated email addresses.

In May 2007 David R. Nadeau of Nadeau Software Consulting published a study where he states that out of 23 harvesters surveyed five can decipher the encoding used by Spam-me-not and similar tools (HTML character entities like o). Two of those 23 harvesters also decipher percent encoding that is included in the current version of Spam-me-not.

Conclusion: Spam-me-not cannot (anymore), prevent spammers from harvesting your email addresses from your websites. Other methods envolving CSS features, that do prevent harvesters to read the addresses, seem to be problematic at best. Probably you will have to resort to methods that use JavaScript and/or require additional interaction by your visitors, as,for example, rendering email addresses as images or using human-readable "encoding" like<myNOSPAMemail(at)justsomeNOSPAM4MEprovider.com>