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SpamSpan Module

Okay, I'm pretty new to Drupal, not sure if this'll work, but I was browsing modules and found the SpamSpan module.
According to the page, it obfuscates email addresses to help prevent spambots from collecting them.
This would give the mods one less task to take care of
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No good. :-(

A spam harvester can now read what it generates - in the format example [at] example [dot] com. A better method is one that doesn't require JavaScript, and which spambots can't read (yet) - using html entity encoding, e.g. ,

An example is at http://mailtoprotector.com/ (requires IE 5.5 or later, as it uses MS JS.Encode thing). I'm intending to make a php module to do this on the server, when I get round to it.

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Yeah

I think John has a generator on his site, too.

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Yup...

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Found a good one!

How does this one look: http://lutrov.com/blog/email-obfuscator/
I can turn it into a Drupal filter without too much trouble.

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Or we could use the email

Or we could use the email filter from htmLawed

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