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Posted by Colin Wilson on 03/06/07 00:18
There are a number of different ways to encode an email address to hide it
from a spider bot.
From: http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php as foobar@nowhere.com
From: http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us/org/webcenter/emailencoder.html
foobar@nowhere.com
From http://www.unreelpro.com/resources/email_encode.php This site
simulaneously encodes into both hex and ASCII foobar@nowhere.com
from : http://www.bravenet.com/reviews/archives/tips.php?view=140 Email Me!
From http://www.manastungare.com/asp/preventspam.asp Email
From http://www.hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php Hiveware deliver the most
terrifyingly complex script yet! You can also insert your "link text" "Email
me today" for example, and optionally insert the subject line. They also
have a facilty where you can have a hover text which shows up when your
mouse hovers over the link. Email me today
From : http://willmaster.com/possibilities/demo/aelgwase.html This one
enables you to encode not only the primary email address but a CC address
and BCC address as well as the subject line and even some text for the email
itself Mail Me
From : http://mypage.direct.ca/s/schinke/encode/ mixed format encoding
Email me
These details were collected some time back so expect some of the links not
to work
The mose complex is the one at hiveware. The site was down when I checked
it a few minutes ago. I hope this is only temporary.
"patrick j" <usemywebsite@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C2117CCB010B26B4B042494F@News.Individual.Net...
> On Mar 4, 2007 dorayme wrote:
>
>> We had a thread a while back in which Spider Monkey gave some
>> impressive results of personal trials using encoding etc and no
>> one really challenged the fact that various masking techniques
>> were quite effective in practice.
>
> Yes, I recall that thread. Was it Spider Monkey however who did the tests?
>
>> I believe now in encoding email addresses and my view is that
>> spam bots will go for the low lying fruit and that it is worth it
>> to put email addresses onto higher branches.
>
> I've gone through the various suggestions and now I think I'll use the
> suggested javascript.
>
> Although it's true it doesn't work if javascript is off, I think for this
> web-page 99% of users will have javascript on.
>
> The web form I think is the most secure way to prevent the email address
> being harvested however the neatness of just the email address on the
> web-page is nice in this application.
>
> For some reason I think the javascript might be more secure than using
> ASCII number alternative to the actual letters but I don't know why I
> think
> that. Indeed the personal testing out of this reported some time ago in
> this newsgroup would shed light on this.
>
> Thanks to all for your suggestions :)
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick
> Brighton, UK
> If you wish you can email me from web-site.
> <http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>
>
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