Comments on: New WordPress Plugin: Hide Emails from Spambots http://austinmatzko.com/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/ A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:59:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 By: Jesse Gardner http://austinmatzko.com/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/comment-page-1/#comment-9212 Jesse Gardner Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:38:18 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/#comment-9212 RYC: While I admire Kant for his painful exactness and stunning thoroughness, I don't like the wall he erected between faith and reason. If I understand <i>CPR</i> correctly (and who does!), his divorcement of analytics and metaphysics, in my opinion, really set the stage for the church's current love affair with "anti-intellectualism". Because he believed that reason couldn't attain knowledge of things beyond the realm of sensory experience, suddenly reason is useless in approaching God. I'm not too comfortable with that. RYC: While I admire Kant for his painful exactness and stunning thoroughness, I don’t like the wall he erected between faith and reason. If I understand CPR correctly (and who does!), his divorcement of analytics and metaphysics, in my opinion, really set the stage for the church’s current love affair with “anti-intellectualism”. Because he believed that reason couldn’t attain knowledge of things beyond the realm of sensory experience, suddenly reason is useless in approaching God. I’m not too comfortable with that.

]]> By: filosofo http://austinmatzko.com/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/comment-page-1/#comment-8852 filosofo Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:04:20 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/#comment-8852 I figure it's prohibitively expensive in time and resources for spambots to use the regular expressions necessary to find obfuscated addresses like johndoe (at) yahoo (dot) com, because of how common are "at" and the letters in top-level domains, like "com" or "net." Supposing I'm wrong, I guess it would be pretty simple just to add garbage around the name, like johndoe #ignore this# (at) #and this# yahoo (dot) com, especially since 95% of people won't see it. I figure it’s prohibitively expensive in time and resources for spambots to use the regular expressions necessary to find obfuscated addresses like johndoe (at) yahoo (dot) com, because of how common are “at” and the letters in top-level domains, like “com” or “net.”

Supposing I’m wrong, I guess it would be pretty simple just to add garbage around the name, like johndoe #ignore this# (at) #and this# yahoo (dot) com, especially since 95% of people won’t see it.

]]> By: Michael C. http://austinmatzko.com/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/comment-page-1/#comment-8851 Michael C. Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:53:52 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/08/11/new-wordpress-plugin-hide-emails-from-spambots/#comment-8851 I've assumed that spambots will get smart enough to find longhand versions (e.g., johndoe[at]yahoo[dot]com ) in their different variations as well. What do you think? One solution I've used, which is a little clunky, is to <a href="http://www.collinscentral.com/" rel="nofollow">use a GIF for my @ symbol</a>. I’ve assumed that spambots will get smart enough to find longhand versions (e.g., johndoe[at]yahoo[dot]com ) in their different variations as well. What do you think?

One solution I’ve used, which is a little clunky, is to use a GIF for my @ symbol.

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