Posted by Ken Sims on 02/06/06 23:47

Hi Paul -

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:11:16 +0000, Paul <paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk>
wrote:

>As I see it, the problem is that if the harvester chomps page by page
>looking for <a href="mailto:...">...</a> then it doesn't matter if the
>solution is PHP/MySQL generated or inserted via some cgi script via a
>server side include (or similar), the address will still be there.

I don't use a mailto link (if the user isn't smart enough to copy it
into their email program, I don't want to hear from them). I use
numeric entity coding. I use a custom address, not "webmaster" or
"info" or anything standard like that.

I've found those three things to be sufficient protection. YMMV.

--
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/

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