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Posted by Gazza on 06/08/05 23:35
Jim Scott mumbled the following on 07/06/2005 18:15:
> Is there a way to have a button or other link to email me from the website
> without the webcrawlers harvesting me for spam?
Despite the server-side options (which I would recommend), there is
another simple tip that I discovered by accident.
Bots seem to strip the @ sign and everything surrounding it upto the
HTML tags surrounding it. If these happen to be the expected <a ...> and
</a> then the bot obviously has your whole address. However, if you're
not 100% fussed about semantic markup, you could use:
<a ...><span>W</span>ebmaster@example.com</a>
....and then delete everything sent to "ebmaster@example.com" - the
on-screen display still reads as "Webmaster@...".
Combine this with swapping the @ sign for @, and it should provide
an almost unharvestable address, at least until you get the server-side
script up and running...
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Gazza
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