E-mail address on webpage

"Rob McAninch" <rob_13@excite.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93ABB0B5F278Frock13com@24.48.107.53...
> Jukka K. Korpela
> <news:Xns93A3CEDC9CE34jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.0.31 >:
>
> > "Freeserve" <thaynes@herfarm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> What about if your mail to link is a picture??? Does this
> >> fool the spam bots?
> >
> > Well, it surely discriminates against blind people.
>
> If you indeed intend it to be a mailto: link then you have to put
> the address in there.
>
> > I recently read an estimate (in a newspaper article that
> > _favored_ munging E-mail addresses) that an average user gets
> > 6 or 7 spam messages daily. So it takes a few seconds a day to
> > delete the spam. All those attempts to "fight against spam" by
> > intentionally forging addresses surely cause more trouble than
> > that.
>
> I probably get around 50 between two accounts each day - still
> doesn't take long to delete them.
>
> --
> Rob - http://rock13.com/
> Web Stuff: http://rock13.com/webhelp/

I don't know if you can do this but is it possible to show the alternative
text in the code and have the code refer to the actual email address in a
css file?

Try this:

<!-- Spam Buster
Many "Email-Harvesting" programs steal email accounts from mailto:
tags in your
web page html source. Using this method will prevent these programs
from
stealing your email address, simply change the username and domainname
to
your email address username and domain name.
-->

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
// Change User Name and Domain Name
username="yourname"
at="@"
domainname="emailserver.com"
document.write("<A
HREF='mailto:"+username+""+at+""+domainname+"'>"+u sername+""+at+""+domainname+"</a>")
</script>

Andy


On 1 Jul 2003 20:31:35 -0700, kathleencoyne781@aol.com (Kathleen
Coyne) wrote:

>I just read through the thread, and I have a few thoughts.
>
>On the account that I used for years and years, I now end up with
>around 100 spam a day. Obviously, I had to stop using that e-mail.
>No matter what I did, I could not get the spam to stop. Filtering
>just didn't work - it just kept coming and coming. This, of course,
>still causes strife because, since I used the address for years and
>years, people still e-mail me there. So, I must still occasionally
>sift through all that goddamn friggen spam. It really amazes me how
>some people can e-mail me on the correct address one day... and the
>very next day e-mail me at my old address. Brain fart or something?
>
>My website e-mail gets about 2 spam a month. My "info@domain.com"
>address gets spammed all the time.
>
>I also may have come up with a decent and easy way to "hide" an e-mail
>address.
>
>I use a javascript trick to remove common markup and make it easier to
>change multiple pages -
>
><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
>src="filename.js"></script>
>
>and in filename.js I write:
>
>document.write('text HTML blah blah blah')
>
>I have noticed that in doing this, that robots can't crawl the
>javascript (to fix the linking problem, I have put a link to a site
>map on the main page). Assuming that harvesting robots would work the
>same as search engine robots - then the harvesting robots will never
>be able to see the e-mail address if you put it in filename.js
>
>So... what you could theoretically do is have this where you want your
>e-mail:
>
><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
>src="email.js"></script>
>
>and put this in the email.js file:
>
>document.write('<a href="mailto:me@domain.com">me@domain.com</a>')
>
>and it would work... right? maybe?
>
>Just an idea. Thought I'd throw it out there. I think I may just try
>it now. Actually, I currently have my address as me(@)domain.com
>'cause I figured anyone with any brain cells would realize to remove
>the "( )" - but I think this javascript trick might just be better


"There would be a lot more civility in this world if people
didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you"
- (Calvin and Hobbes)

"Mr. Clean" <mrclean@protctorandgamble.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.196ca83f2f004b849899e6@news-server.austin.rr.com...
> <SNIP>
>
> > <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
> > src="email.js"></script>
> >
> > and put this in the email.js file:
> >
> > document.write('<a href="mailto:me@domain.com">me@domain.com</a>')
> >
> > and it would work... right? maybe?
> >
> > Just an idea. Thought I'd throw it out there. I think I may just try
> > it now. Actually, I currently have my address as me(@)domain.com
> > 'cause I figured anyone with any brain cells would realize to remove
> > the "( )" - but I think this javascript trick might just be better
>
> While I hadn't though of doing it this way, I do have a PHP script
> that essentially does the same thing to keep harvesters from getting
> the emails on my site. If you want it, I'll post it here.
>
I would like to see your php please
thanks
David

Kathleen Coyne wrote:
>
> I use a javascript trick to remove common markup and make it easier to
> change multiple pages -
>
<snip>
> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
> src="email.js"></script>
>
> and put this in the email.js file:
>
> document.write('<a href="mailto:me@domain.com">me@domain.com</a>')
>

You own domain.com? I'm impressed ;-)

> and it would work... right? maybe?
>

Only for users who actually have JavaScript enabled. And (in theory, at
least) if the browser can read it, then so can a spambot. There may not be
many of them around at the moment that can read JS, but they will come. A
better solution is to use a form that is submitted using a server-side
script. The only downfall with that is that some users will prefer to send
you email rather than filling in an online form. Ultimately, you either
need to cater to those users, and risk getting lots of spam, or not publish
your email address, and risk losing business from those users.

--

Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

Mark Parnell wrote:
> Only for users who actually have JavaScript enabled. And (in theory, at
> least) if the browser can read it, then so can a spambot. There may not be
> many of them around at the moment that can read JS, but they will come. A
> better solution is to use a form that is submitted using a server-side
> script. The only downfall with that is that some users will prefer to send
> you email rather than filling in an online form. Ultimately, you either
> need to cater to those users, and risk getting lots of spam, or not publish
> your email address, and risk losing business from those users.

Stick the email address as an image clickable to a form. Best of both
and no java.

Ben



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In article <be17jp$3kh7$1@ID-121117.news.dfncis.de>, ben_altman@deadspam.com
says...
> Mark Parnell wrote:
> > Only for users who actually have JavaScript enabled. And (in theory, at
> > least) if the browser can read it, then so can a spambot. There may not be
> > many of them around at the moment that can read JS, but they will come. A
> > better solution is to use a form that is submitted using a server-side
> > script. The only downfall with that is that some users will prefer to send
> > you email rather than filling in an online form. Ultimately, you either
> > need to cater to those users, and risk getting lots of spam, or not publish
> > your email address, and risk losing business from those users.
>
> Stick the email address as an image clickable to a form. Best of both
> and no java.
>

Not Bobby compilant...