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Is it dangerous to display your e-mail address as an image?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	It's dangerous USING an email address if you don't know that ALL senders and recipients are uninfected by trojans, viri or spyware, and will stay uninfected in the foreseeable future, and public archives etc. are kept with email addresses obfuscated/removed. It's dangerous putting an email address online where anyone can see the address, period. There's porn site that hijack other sites's captcha mechanisms, letting their users do the decoding for them, and the same method can be used for email addresses in images. There's pretty good software for solving captchas, especially if the construction mechanism used is consistent. The best captchas use distinctly different ways of obfuscating different parts, at random, such as using dithering, distortion, colour differences, contrasts, and lines and other noise. If you just put your email address in an image, but don't protect it in any other way such as those used in these harder captchas, then the only factor that really protects your address from being collected is that you're making it harder detecting that it actually is an email address. I doubt there's many bots out there that tries to detect email addys in images though, as the practice isn't wide spread. It's also dangerous to have an address that is "guessable" from any public data, such as firstname.lastname@example.org, if there's a name like Firstname Lastname on the contacs or about pages on example.org. Or you can simply rely on rejecting bad SMTP-connections, using spam filters (bayesian or otherwise) and possibly whitelisting/blacklisting or mandating certain tags in the subject, those can work pretty well. Or not putting the address online at all, only putting a form online that will server side send the mail. -- var Liorean = { abode: "[sigrotate][url]http://liorean.web-graphics.com/[/url]\|[url]http://codingforums.com/[/url]\|[url]http://web-graphics.com/[/url][/sigrotate]", profile: "[url]http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798[/url]"}; Loading...
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