Posted by Sally Thompson on 03/08/07 17:20

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:38:56 +0000, patrick j wrote
(in article <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?


Patrick, one thing you might consider is *not* using an obvious email address
such as info@example.com. I get quite a bit of spam on a previous email
address (currently unused) set up in this form, but for the church web site
below, for example, where I act as postbox and the email is
churchwardens@example.com, there has never yet been a spam email. So I would
suggest, apart from whatever masking technique you use, not using sales,
info, etc, which may help.




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Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

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