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[nycphp-talk] Masking Emails and Avoiding Spam - OOPS

soazine@pop.erols.com soazine at pop.mail.rcn.net
Thu May 1 18:18:20 EDT 2003


I am not sure of a good client-side solution to masking emails; what I had
to do for my site (http://valsignalandet.com) is to build an entire
server-side feedback solution; something becoming popular now with many
sites.  That way my email address is neither listed nor generated; it only
exists within server-side code.

Perhaps a bit heavy-handed but it has significantly cut down on spam that
way.

Phil

Original Message:
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From: Ed McCarroll Ed at ComSimplicity.com
Date: Thu,  1 May 2003 17:59:44 -0400
To: talk at nyphp.org
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Masking Emails and Avoiding Spam - OOPS


> ... the methods below both produce ...

I think I trimmed too much.  I was referring to the following:

> 1) JavaScript Replacement
> 
> For example, if your email address is webmaster at nyphp.edu, you would
insert
> the following code, replacing "user" with the information to the left of
> the @ sign and replacing "site" with your host name.
> 
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> <!-- Begin
> user = "webmaster";
> site = "nyphp.edu";
> 
> document.write('<a href=\\"mailto:' + user + '@' + site + '\\">');
> document.write(user + '@' + site + '</a>');
> // End -->
> </SCRIPT>
> 
> 
> 2) ASCII Code Replacement
> You can replace the "@" sign in your mailto links with the ASCII code
> equivalent "@".
> 
> For example, if your email address is webmaster at nyphp.edu, you would do
the
> following:
> 
> <a href="mailto:webmaster at nyphp.edu">webmaster at nyphp.edu</a>
> 
> This will produce a link that says webmaster at nyphp.edu.

Sorry 'bout that.

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Ed McCarroll                          MailTo:Ed at ComSimplicity.com
ComSimplicity                                      (310) 838-4330
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