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...is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998 (archives). You can read about me and kottke.org here. If you've got questions, concerns, or interesting links, send them along.

Now I'm getting spam about

Now I'm getting spam about spam protection services:

Dear Email user,

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Jackasses. The funny bit is that the spam protection they are offering (for $8.95, no less) is just a bit of JavaScript that garbles email addresses so they cannot be harvested. Here's the same thing for free:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<a href="mailto:' + 'name@' + 'youremail.com' + '">' + 'name@' + 'youremail.com' + '</a>');
</script>

Just replace "name" and "youremail.com" with your information and you're good to go.

By Jason Kottke    Dec 31, 2001 at 10:00 am

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