Hide Emails From Spammer

[Phillip Vong]

I was told there was a way to hide the Emails on my website from Spammers.
This is what I've been using.

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Need Subject">
(e-mail address removed)</a><p>&nbsp;</td>

I was told that the (@) to represent the @ sign was not enough and
spammers could read this. Is that true?
Is there a way I can make the email desplay an @ for viewers without using
the @ sign like I have in the example?

Basically, I'm trying to find a way to keep Spammers from fishing for emails
on this website.

Thanks1

 

[Guest]

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

The best approach is to use forms that are process via a server-side script written in ASP, ASP.net,
PHP, etc., and not the FP Form Handler.

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[Don]

Will webbots read hex email addresses?

I use JavaScript for email addy's on my site,
can't vouch for the success, but we don't receive
allot of group spam. Here's the code.
===============
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
var username = "username";
var hostname = "Domain.com";
var linktext = "Click Here To Send Me Email";
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username + "@" + hostname
+ ">" + linktext + "</a>")
//-->
</script>
=============

HTH
Don
====================
"Phillip Vong" <phillip_vong*at*yahoo*dot*com> wrote in message
|I was told there was a way to hide the Emails on my website from Spammers.
| This is what I've been using.
|
| <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Need Subject">
| (e-mail address removed)</a><p>&nbsp;</td>
|
| I was told that the (@) to represent the @ sign was not enough and
| spammers could read this. Is that true?
| Is there a way I can make the email desplay an @ for viewers without using
| the @ sign like I have in the example?
|
| Basically, I'm trying to find a way to keep Spammers from fishing for
emails
| on this website.
|
| Thanks1
|
|

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Don,

The only issue I ran into using JavaScript to hide email address, is when I did a search and replace
a few years later, which were not found.

I had totally forgotten that I had hidden a few addresses until someone sent an email to a specific
address. I had to contact this person to see how they found that specific email address.

So if this approach is use, in needs to be in a Include Page, so that you have a single file to
update.

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[Don]

Agreed!!

Don
================
| Don,
|
| The only issue I ran into using JavaScript to hide email address, is when
I did a search and replace
| a few years later, which were not found.
|
| I had totally forgotten that I had hidden a few addresses until someone
sent an email to a specific
| address. I had to contact this person to see how they found that specific
email address.
|
| So if this approach is use, in needs to be in a Include Page, so that you
have a single file to
| update.
|
| --
| ==============================================
| Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
|
| FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| ==============================================
| To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
|
| > Will webbots read hex email addresses?
| >
| > I use JavaScript for email addy's on my site,
| > can't vouch for the success, but we don't receive
| > allot of group spam. Here's the code.
| > ===============
| > <script language=JavaScript>
| > <!--
| > var username = "username";
| > var hostname = "Domain.com";
| > var linktext = "Click Here To Send Me Email";
| > document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username + "@" +
hostname
| > + ">" + linktext + "</a>")
| > //-->
| > </script>
| > =============
| >
| > HTH
| > Don
| > ====================
| > "Phillip Vong" <phillip_vong*at*yahoo*dot*com> wrote in message
| > | > |I was told there was a way to hide the Emails on my website from
Spammers.
| > | This is what I've been using.
| > |
| > | <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Need Subject">
| > | (e-mail address removed)</a><p>&nbsp;</td>
| > |
| > | I was told that the (@) to represent the @ sign was not enough and
| > | spammers could read this. Is that true?
| > | Is there a way I can make the email desplay an @ for viewers without
using
| > | the @ sign like I have in the example?
| > |
| > | Basically, I'm trying to find a way to keep Spammers from fishing for
| > emails
| > | on this website.
| > |
| > | Thanks1
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Phillip Vong]

Thanks KCWebmaster!!! This is exactly what I'm looking for.

Phil

 

[clintonG]

Just be advised that you and everybody else that believes using
JavaScript is secure are fooling. The JavaScript technique is a
sham because it does not and can not prevent the use of 'screen
scraping' the entire page and using Regular Expressions to parse the
e-mail address from the HTML that the JavaScript writes into the page.

It would be even more foolish to think that those that are in it for
the money are not using screen scraping and regular expressions.

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Architectural & e-Business Consulting -- Software Development
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[Andrew Murray]

A "safer" way is to use a script that has the email hard-coded into the script
itself, not one visible in "view source" of an html document.

Try this: www.form2email.co.uk - a script that hides email addresses from spam
harvesters - it puts the email address actually in the perl script (doesn't use
Hidden fields input types).


Also, here's an ASP script that you code the email address into the actual
script.

http://nuts4asp.com/scrips/pfeed/


Also, here's an "encoder" using javascript - only thing is the user will need
javascript turned on.

http://automaticlabs.com/enkoderform/

I don't think anything is foolproof.

 

[Murray]

Server script is about as foolproof as you can get.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

here's one I've used for a while, although I'm going to use Thomas' include
page trick from here on out. ;-)

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[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

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