S3 Keep 'em lookin'.

A while back an application for OS X called SpamStopper appeared in the Macintosh Products Guide. As everyone wants to stop spam, the application garnered interest.

What was most notable about the application was its abhorrent engineering: designed to only obfuscate mailto anchors - a straightforward character string operation - SpamStopper weighed in at 990 KB, 30% larger than Safari.

The mind boggled at how so much user free disk space could be wasted on such a trivial idea, and the author was not exactly forthcoming with apologies or anything of the like. 'It does what it claims to do and that should be enough', was the sharp retort.

Well, that is decidedly not enough, and the companion site Radsoft, along with a number of acknowledged software gurus, hastened to point this out and prove it.

Your disk space is your property and no one else's. It should not be wasted by those not professional enough to write good software and/or too callous to care.

S3 stands for 'SpamStopper Stopper'. It's a full replacement and a lot more. It takes any 'mailto' anchor and your link text and gives you back something that looks incomprehensible - until you put it in your web page. Alternative obfuscation methods are offered, as is an economical method - which gives you all told four different ways to keep the spam crawlers away.

And on OS X it's only 1/50 (one fiftieth) the size.

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