It also provides an unknown 3rd party with your email addresses -- the
owner of the site that provides the obfuscation.
Chris
On 13 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Dr Who? wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> It might be of some interest to anyone who wants to help protect
>> their
>> published email addresses from being harvested by spambots.
>
> It nolonger has the protection it once did, it actually uses the same
> methods that spammers themselves use in there email, and a lot
> of the current harvesting software in use already converts this to
> a stardard ASCII text email address for inclusion into the spammers
> database.
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