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Posted by Andy Dingley on 06/08/05 01:55
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:15:40 GMT, Jim Scott <mr.jimscott@Xvirgin.net>
wrote:
>Is there a way to have a button or other link to email me from the website
>without the webcrawlers harvesting me for spam?
Simply: Use a mailto: link as usual, but replace the "@" character with
the entity ref @ (HTML encoded version of the same character)
This isn't perfectly reliable for the future, but it seems to be ignored
by the spammers at present. You'll still get spam to "webmaster", but
that's just from the scumbags reading the domain name reg database.
For a robust solution, use a mailto script running on a server. This
doesn't need to be the same server as the rest of the site, so you can
borrow one, even if your current hosting doesn't support scripts.
However many web hosts already offer a suitable mailto script, as part
of a standard package.
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