At 11:21 AM 5/17/2007, you wrote:
Just finishing up a site, and I was wondering - are most people still
putting email addresses up on a site, and if so, are they encrypted? I
thought I heard from somewhere that was a primary way that spammers were
getting addresses.
If anyone has any opinions
Thanks Deb. I think we need to put the email addresses on the site, but
perhaps not in mailto:; tags. Is that what the bots look at when scanning?
Todd
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At 12:58 PM 5/17/2007, you wrote:
Thanks Deb. I think we need to put the email addresses on the site, but
perhaps not in mailto:; tags. Is that what the bots look at when scanning?
I can't say for sure what they specifically look
for but if you feel strongly about putting the
email on the
Todd:
If it's your client who wants to put the address on the site then it
might be an idea to go over the risks with them and suggest the PHP
contact form. If it's you who wants to put it on (and we can't talk you
out of it lol) then you could try populating a clickable mail link using
a
The original question - properly re-phrased - would have been more towards
coding the email address links - whether to use a script to encrypt them,
or not to program them in a link at all. I don't see how you can't have an
email address on a website. OK, I see how you can do it, but that's a
Thanks Ross. This is an interesting article:
http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm
I tested one of my pages without the mailto: link and it still found the
address on the page. Here is a way to test a page:
http://willmaster.com/possibilities/demo/RetrieveEmails.cgi
So I guess
At 01:42 PM 5/17/2007, you wrote:
OK, I see how you can do it, but that's a very
frustrating thing when I go to a site is not being able to find a way to
email them.
That's what contact forms are for. g My
experience is that the Mom'n'Pop - homemade sites
who don't use a real designer use
Todd Richards wrote:
Thanks Ross. This is an interesting article:
http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm
I tested one of my pages without the mailto: link and it still found the
address on the page. Here is a way to test a page:
