The only way your email address will be semi-safe would be to hardcode
it in the actual cfmail tag.  That or set a variable.

What I did for on gig was to do a dropdown box showing the names and
giving each a value.  When someone submitted the form, I let a simple
cfif handle the rest.  The user never knew the actual email address
that their request was sent to.

On 12/21/06, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depends on what you're doing, but if the email address is visible in the
> source of the processed cfm page, then yes, it can be harvested.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Rogoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:29 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: OT: harvesting email addresses
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I just wanted to follow up with my previous post regarding hiding email
> addresses
> > on form.  Can email addresses be harvested off .cfm and .php pages, or are
> the
> > addresses invisible to the bots on server side scripts. My client says
> they are
> > receiving a lot of spam but i'm not sure that encoding the email address
> on
> > the .cfm or .php will solve anything or if spam is just part of the
> internet now.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
> 

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