Hoosgot

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/08/21/readable-non-harvestable-email-addresses-with-css asks Hoosgot,

Stupid hack I’ve just thought of. My email address is: @silogenixkry.org Spam harvesters looking at that will see the following code: <p style=”padding-left: 5em”><span>@</span><span style=”margin-left: -2.5em”>sil</span><span style=”margin-left: 3.5em”>ogenix</span><span style=”margin-left: -5.3em”>kry</span><span style=”margin-left: 4.1em”>.org</span></p> Or, with HTML stripped, @silogenixkry.org, which ain’t an email address. It does it by breaking up the address into bits, putting the bits into HTML in the wrong order, and reassembling the bits into a readable order with judicious use of CSS.* It requires a certain amount of fiddling to get the margins right such that (a) the address shows up in the right order and (b) changes in font-size don’t screw it up. I’d write a tiny web-service to do it to a supplied address if I …

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