[ILUG] [TOTD] Your e-mail as a small PNG

[Dave O Connor]

Lee Hosty said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:16:51PM +0100:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Dave O Connor wrote:
> 
> > Barry O'Donovan said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:59:06PM +0100:
> > >
> > > text2gif -t "name at domain.com" | convert -border 1x1 -bordercolor
> > > "#000000" -negate - png:name.png
> > >
> >
> > I always find that a tiny CGI on your webserver, which when hit issues a 302
> > redirect to a mailto: link works a treat. That way, console/ssh nerds can just
> 
> How does that stop spammers harvesting your address? Do you run the
> REMOTE_ADDR through a whitelist or something?
> 
It seems to work for me. Most spam programs tend not to be very clever about
harvesting addresses from HTTP headers.

    - DoC