CTAN has a new package: switcheml
Date: February 10, 2004 8:31:12 PM CET
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org, and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: switcheml
Author's name: Charles Duan
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/switcheml
Summary description: Obfuscates email addresses so they are unreadable to
email harvesters
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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switcheml provides one main command, "\switcheml{EMAIL}", that obfuscates
an email address EMAIL by rearranging it so that, while it prints
correctly on the page, it is unreadable by email address harvesters
(typically used by spammers).
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/switcheml
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
switcheml – Obfuscate email addresses (now obsolete)
The package (roughly) parses an email address, and writes it out as a series of boxes in a jumbled order, but with positioning commands to make the result print correctly. This performance will confuse address-harvesters that look inside your PostScript or PDF files on the web.
This package is considered obsolete; its facilities are now provided by the randtext package.
| Package | switcheml |
| Version | 2004-02-10 |
| Maintainer | Charles Duan |