Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-23 Thread heretic
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

[WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread 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. Here's my thoughts * You could do something like me[AT]foo[DOT]bar but the problem with this is

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread David R
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

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:33:51 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Patrick Lauke
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:

RE: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Patrick Lauke
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

RE: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Mike Pepper
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Alan Trick
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

RE: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Patrick Lauke
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

RE: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Mike Pepper
:[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

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Alan Trick
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 The