NYCPHP Meetup

[Sexton, David]

I've found that the best solution is to use an HTML form w/ a server-side
script to send a message.
Unless it's absolutely necessary for you to distribute your e-mail address,
then why not direct them to your site's contact form?

The other thing you could do is publish it as an image, although you may
have to use a stenciled, wavy style to prevent OCR bots from interpreting
it.
When they click the image, have it open an HTML mail form, rather than using
mailto: to instantiate a mail client.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed McCarroll [mailto:Ed at ComSimplicity.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:40 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Masking Emails and Avoiding Spam


Um, (unless I'm missing something) the methods below both produce
machine-readable email addresses.  SpamBots are as capable as browsers
at executing JavaScript and then interpreting the results.

The neatest trick I've heard about had to do with a mouseover handler
that changed the href of an <a> tag on the fly.  I haven't tried it,
and am wondering if the same can be done for a screenshot image
depicting the address.

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