I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep
then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers. Here's my thoughts
If you only need to protect a small number of email addresses, there's
another
I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep
then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers. Here's my thoughts
* You could do something like me[AT]foo[DOT]bar but the problem with
this is
Hi Alan
I prefer to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] method, as it's pretty self-explanatory
and easier to understand that me[-at-]foo[-dot-]bar.
There are other options, such as using a simple (ie: plaintext, no
image-generation) CAPTCHA that then directs the site visitor to a page with the
email
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:33:51 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep
then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers.
Anyone else have any good
Alan Trick
I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep
then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers.
Interestingly, there were similar discussions this month on two other
lists:
Kornel Lesinski
You can encode mail with URLencode and then with decimal and
hexadecimal
HTML entities, example implementation:
http://wiki.pornel.ldreams.net/encje
The problem with this type of method: once a method gets popular (because
it temporarily works), bot writers are more than
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Behalf Of Alan Trick
Sent: 22 February 2005 14:34
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam
I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still
Trick
Sent: 22 February 2005 14:34
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam
I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep
spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep
then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers
Alan Trick
The number of people who will ever see the invisible text is pretty
small and I think it's pretty self explanitory how to get the address
out of there if their UA doesn't support 'display:none'.
The problem is not UA (browser, in this case) support for display:none;
it's the
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Alan Trick
Sent: 22 February 2005 16:40
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam
Thanks for the replies. I've desided to just go with something like this:
mspan style='display:none'{remove this text for email address
I'm not including it as a link, so people are going to have to copy and
paste it anyways. I'm including a form on the page so that those who
want to contact me directly, can.
And Mike, just email me at this address, thanks :-)
Patrick Lauke wrote:
Alan Trick
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