<a href="ma... om">ct... ess</a>
It's said to be the same as :
<a href="mailto:[email protected]'>contact</a>
But can work against email harvesting robot.
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A:
They're numeric character entities, trying to trick spiders into not seeing "mailto" or characters in the form of an email address. And as an anti-harvesting strategy, it probably hasn't worked since 1997 or so. :-)
T.J. Crowder
2010-02-11 14:49:48
Hasn't worked because that most languages now have native functions like PHP's html_entity_decode() which does the match between those entities and the real characters.
jpabluz
2010-02-11 14:52:58
@jpabluz: Exactly. The spiders interpret the entities and then scan the resulting string.
T.J. Crowder
2010-02-11 14:53:58
A:
This:
<a href="ma... om">ct... ess</a>
makes it a little difficult for email harvesting than its counter part:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]'>contact</a>
However, there are ways to decrypt even that so this is not that much useful in practice :(
Sarfraz
2010-02-11 14:50:34
+1
A:
It assumes that spambot spiders treat webpages as text to regex match against instead of performing the most basic HTML parsing.
David Dorward
2010-02-11 14:51:00