> Alan Trick > I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep > spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep > then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers.
Interestingly, there were similar discussions this month on two other lists: <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0502&L=web-support&T=0&F=&S=&X=3B8ECB71D95F394803&Y=p%2Eh%2Elauke%40salford%2Eac%2Euk&P=1150> and <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2005JanMar/0281.html> In both cases, I suggested that there may only be 2 realistic, sustainable options: 1) use a contact form (and keep the actual email address of the recipient on the server side...for instance, have a database of email addresses, and only pass an ID/primary key in a hidden field to identify which email address from the db it should go to) 2) (and/or) invest in some good spam filtering (both mailserver and client side) Anything else will have drawbacks for users with disabilities (and all other users as well, to an extent). IMHO anyway. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
