Posted by Bone Ur on 11/13/07 18:40

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:49:30
GMT Jukka K. Korpela scribed:

>> My company want this
>> adres not to be visible through the html source code ( so that bots
>> cannot read the emailaddress from the source code from the internet).

>> What is the simplest way to do this?

> Remove the web site. (You asked for the _simplest_ way, didn't you?)

Sure... _You_ can give an inane answer, but when _I_ say something like
"Verdana only comes in white," I'm an international despot! Oh, the
discriminatory iniquities of the Old Worlder!

>> Do I have to create javascript
>> function that is triggered from the a href tag, and the javascript
>> function opens an email with the adres in it?
>
> And wait for spammers to use tools that interpret JavaScript?
>
> Just tell them to make up their mind. Either use the Internet, or stay
> away from it. In the former case, stay tuned to getting spam. Deal
> with it. There's a lot of software to filter out spam. Just preventing
> some address harvesting, at the cost of aggravating your customers and
> making your site crappy, wouldn't stop them from getting spam.

Pragmatic but undiplomatic. Are you on the government tit?

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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