[thelist] Preventing spam spiders from reading mailto links.
John C Bullas
jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Tue Dec 9 00:40:36 CST 2003
At 05:13 07/12/2003, Philip Weller wrote
>Hello, all.
>
><snip> (I'm aware of Daniel
>Benjamin's Hiveware Enkoder (http://hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php) and think
>he's providing a wonderful service, but I've chosen not to use it because it
>relies on JavaScript and won't work for users who've disabled it.)
an easy way is to "mung" the mailto: address BUT this assumes "clued up" users!
OR direct people to a webform instead of an email address.......
you have the form set to send "from" some obscure address on your own domain
you set a challenge response service up for that domain.......
you have the only approved incoming address as the one the form sends from
the rest get the "spamArrest" treatment....
if someone gets wise to this you can easily block this "from" and start a
new one ;)
FB
I sadly use a little javascript for munging my emails where I want to use
mailto: (inconsiderate ain't I?)
>Many Thanks,
>Philip Weller
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