On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > Personally I have replaced all mailto links on web sites with links to > contact forms. I have also started to use a 'noreply' address (which > normally is forwarded to /dev/null) when posting to mailing lists and > Usenet groups where there is a big risk for harvesting by the spam bots. > Instead I provide a contact form link like the one below. Unfortunately > this is not (yet) common practice. :)
Here's another simple trick for protecting addesses, "the m script". You can install a simple script (example below), so that an address like this: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This creates a valid mailto: link for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I like this solution because it's "user friendly" in the sense the users are presented with adddresses they can use directly without further decoding. It's also easy to update the pattern replacement to be even harder to guess for the robots. Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Stosberg Principal Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites . . . . . http://www.summersault.com/ . . . . . . . . ###### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # trim off the leading "/" my $add = substr($ENV{'PATH_INFO'},1); # remove the extra "a"'s $add =~ s/a\@a/\@/g; print "Location: mailto:$add\n\n";; exit(0); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS
