understand how this would even be possible if the page is coded properly?
Anyway, if you want to hide the email address, set it as a variable in
the application.cfm and then call the variable from the CFMAIL tag.
Pete
Les Mizzell wrote:
> Regarding SPAM Email Harvester Bots...
>
> There's some really good _javascript_s out there to protect an email
> address in a standard "MAILTO:" link, but the harverters are also
> grabbing addresses from CFMAIL tags.
>
> Anybody got a good technique to "hide" the email addresses in "CFMAIL"
> from the harvesters?
>
> By the way, I've got a page working now that uses _javascript_ by
> D.K.Merriman to generate a ton of false email addresses, then record the
> IP address and other information about the crawler and email it to me
> so I can see what's hitting the page. The page then has links containing
> random variable that point back to itself so the harvester will follow
> the link back to the page and get MORE email addresses.
>
> I grabbed one last night:
> address = 63.121.30.223
> host = 63.121.30.223
> agent = Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; FlipDog; http://www.whizbang.com/crawler)
> page = /myEmailList.cfm
>
> It looped through the page close to 100 times, thusly grabbing several
> thousand "dud" addresses....
>
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