Header Changes »
I've added a button to the header for my Wal-Mart wish list. The buttons look pretty good in Firefox. They look pretty bad in Internet Explorer. Sorry. I'm still not interested in catering to IE. I also changed the email address presentation. Now it just tells you the address to use. Send it to the domain you're viewing. This is also reflected in a tool tip when you hover over that text. I'm beginning to suspect that the scrapers are looking for "written out" email addresses such as the one I was using, so I am trying a new way of presenting it. Humans should be able to find their way to it, robots may take a while to figure it out. Those reading via RSS shouldn't care about any of these changes, as none of this matters.
Comments (2)
Have you considered making an image of your address? I've heard that's a fairly effective method. =)
Posted by Lisa | August 10, 2004 10:24 PM
I hadn't really thought of that, but...
A: I have to fire up some form of image software to create such a beast and B: It seems that most "captcha" images have all sorts of lines and whatnot to defeat OCR.
I don't know if OCR is a viable email harvesting method, but it seems that it might be - and so I'll stick with this one for a bit to see what comes of it. Thanks for the idea, tho!
Posted by Chad Everett | August 11, 2004 7:35 AM