On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:38 AM, David Mann wrote: >> You might consider 'hiding' your email address as a clickable image >> rather than as text on the contact page. It cuts down on spam. > > If the email address is embedded as a mailto: link on the image, > spammers will still get hold of it.
This is true. On the other hand, it seems to defeat about 98% of the web crawlers, which is good enough for me. Most of them are not very sophisticated. ;-) > To avoid having the email address embedded in the HTML code you > either have to have a contact form, or engage in a little trickery. > > FWIW my site uses a little PHP snippet which generates a randomised > call to a simple javascript function that writes the text. I did > this in the hope that spam-harvesters don't have javascript > interpreters. It seems to be working OK so far, but my pages won't > quite validate due to the inline use of noscript tags (I'll withhold > my grumbling). Yeah.... Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
