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Posted: 07.23.2003 Secret decoder ring
I just noticed that Michele was going through search engine hell because of talking about Kobe Bryant's rape victim yesterday. This method is not 100% fool-proof, but rather than type out full names in such instances, I use their HTML alphabet characters, and it seems to work fairly well for me. The name appears normally above in "print" on my site, but it's actually a set of numbers and symbols in my actual entry's HTML here. So when the content of my page is harvested, they won't see Kobe's name, but rather a set of encoded gobbelty-gook characters. It also helps spam-protect your e-mail address from spambots if you're currently listing your full address on your site. Just thought it might help so I'm passing it along...
Komlenic Tools has a nice gadget that generates the HTML characters for you. ¤ ¤ credit: Morgan | 07.23.03 at 08:02 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Great link -- thank you! Here's another e-mail address encoder form. ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 07.23.03 at 08:04 PM | link--this ¤ ¤shouldnt post unless u want people to find it http://www.thisurlwasdeleted.com/ scroll 1/2 way down UPDATE from Robyn: Not on MY site, bud. Nice try! ¤ ¤ credit: Free Kobe | 07.23.03 at 08:11 PM | link--this ¤ ¤ the html alphabet helps a little with spambots ... but there are some that will convert those characters back into the @ symbol. at least the one i use does, er ... ;-) ¤ ¤ credit: tj | 07.23.03 at 08:55 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Thanks for these links guys! One day I'll find a cool use for them ;-) ¤ ¤ credit: Annessa | 07.23.03 at 09:17 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Yeah, as mentioned -- it's not foolproof -- but it beats nuthin'. ;-) ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 07.23.03 at 09:20 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Dude you are so smart. By the way I posted a picture of "her" (or what she might look like anyway) for all the Google hits I am getting because of writing about it, myself. I figure, why disapoint the nosey little trolls. (link edited out by Robyn - please visit the long way - thanks!) ¤ ¤ credit: peat | 07.23.03 at 10:13 PM | link--this ¤ ¤ Thank you for sharing this information. You are so helpful to fellow bloggers. Keep up the good work. ¤ ¤ credit: Sid | 07.23.03 at 10:49 PM | link--this ¤ ¤If anyone uses the Python scripting language (works on Windows, Mac, OS X, *nix), I've written a module that ASCII-encodes and/or JavaScript disguises email addresses to help thwart spambots. http://neurobashing.com/monkey/archives/000283.html or http://neurobashing.com/~gary/files/asciiEncode.py ¤ ¤ credit: Gary | 07.23.03 at 11:19 PM | link--this ¤ ¤That's kinda funny because sometimes when I rebuild entries some words have a bunch of numbers after them or become numbers themselves. See you. ¤ ¤ credit: Randomgirl | 07.24.03 at 09:02 AM | link--this ¤ ¤What amazes me is the inability of any of these trolls to write a single coherent sentence using the English language. ¤ ¤ credit: Hondo | 07.24.03 at 12:10 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I use a similar thing to keep the spambots away. Thanks for the link! :-) ¤ ¤ credit: christine m. | 07.25.03 at 06:39 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Followup to my previous post: I've given the Python module a web front-end for anyone to use. Hope someone finds it helpful. http://neurobashing.com/brains/apps/Encode Later. ¤ ¤ credit: Gary | 07.29.03 at 07:47 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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