OT - about DCML messages online

[Theresa Wiegert]

Donald:
> Theresa, how does that "REMOVE_THIS" code work? Does it tell the robots not
> to harvest that address, or simply obfuscate the address they do harvest? If
> the latter, how does the link still work? I can certainly see how altering
> the address that appears on the screen works without interfering with the
> operation, but would very much like to know how to keep them from getting
> the address inside the tag.

My guess is that the bots take everything that includes an @, but these
must turn out to be a humongous amount of addresses, so then the
REMOVE_THIS part is still there, so when trying to send of spam, it won't
reach the extended address. (perhaps one should use a less obvious
extension of the address, in case it can be filtered somehow by the
webvillains... or best, not use a link at all, and make the address an
image, so people will have to write it down themselves. It can't be too
hard. Perhaps not somehting you want if you have a commercial website. But
then, the website should be written in something else than html, in a way
that the page gets generated when you load it.

Now, how are the rules for dcml - if you write something that is on topic,
can you have a part that's OT also? :) Personally I think that OT
sidekicks can be very interesting, and perspectivebroadening, as long as
it doesn't go too far... But then again, I'm not the webmaster/sysop
what's the word??? maintainer of the list...

A question: if there's anyone among you who happens to be a duckfarmer -
do tame ducks fly? People do keep ducks, don't they? But why then - for
the meat? the down? because they are cute? (he, good enough reason for
me...). Fois de Canard! I think I've eaten that some time. And if people
keep geese and ducks, why not swans? Are they not tasty? Or perhaps that's
the thing - swans fly, so it would be hard to keep them.

Anyway, sorry for my rambling, I better go do something important now.
(I'm *really* tired, but I think that's obvious from this posting, which I
probably shouldn't post, but, ah, you always have the option to skip! :)

/Theresa, quacky wacky