David Mann wrote: > On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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. > > 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.
Sadly, some of them do these days. They seem to be mostly unsophisticated, so I think your solution will work. I use Javascript to assemble the email address out of fragments in the HTML and have a noscript link to a page with *just* an image of my email address (no mailto link). Amazingly, there are spammers who have scraped this manually! The problem is that when one spammer gets hold of your address it's often immediately sold to a few others, each of whom in turn sells it to a few others and so on... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
