Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 03/04/07 21:42

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed patrick j
<usemywebsite@googlemail.com> writing in
news:0001HW.C210ECF000FB261AB042494F@News.Individual.Net:

> Hi
>
> I'm just putting together a web-page onwhich I am going to include an
> email address in a "mailto" link.
>
> To hide it from the spam bots I'm going to use ASCII codes for each
> character of the email address.
>
> What I'm wondering is: will this work if I actually display the email
> address in the web-page as well as put it in the href for the "mailto"
> link?
>
> The reason I ask is that a human being will be able to see and even
> copy and paste the email address from the web-page. Will a spam bot be
> able to "see" it as well?
>
> TIA
>
>

There is almost no way to keep an email address from spam-bots. I would
say the best thing to do would be to use a "throw away" address, and set
it for very aggressive filtering.

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