[thelist] stripping emails and replacing with forms to combat spam
Kid Stevens
dragon-vision at comcast.net
Thu Sep 26 03:36:01 CDT 2002
Here are two other ways to kill Spammers
That is the entire e-mail address encoded in HTML character representation.
<input name="recipient" type="hidden"
value="greyangel@al
ternative-beau
ty.com">
in the head
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
<!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
<!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->
<!-- Original: William Rozell Jr (elranzer at nospam.com ) -->
<!-- Web Site: http://www.elranzer.com -->
<!-- Begin
var user;
var domain;
var suffix;
function jemail(user, domain, suffix){
document.write('<a href="' + 'mailto:' + user + '@' + domain + '.' + suffix
+ '">' + user + '</a>');
}
//-->
// End -->
</script>
in the body
<td>Email me at
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
<!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
<!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->
<!-- Begin
jemail("dragon-vision", "comcast", "net");
// End -->
</script>
for web and Ranger problems.</td>
Both work and you could if you don't need to search engines hammering away
at your every page on your site use a robot.txt file and an engine.html file
to control the pages with emails from being searched. I watched a spam
spider work on one of my sites and the idiot programmer had rewritten a
standard search engine spider. So his followed the rules and got nothing.
on 9/26/02 1:27 AM, Andrew Maynes at andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am starting today with a mission of action. I would like to know what you
> guys think of this.
>
> Having embedded many contact email addreses within sites for all the right and
> possitive reasons. The point has come where spam spam spam has just sprialled
> out of control.
>
> So the plan is this. To remove all email addresses from sites and replace
> them
> with a contact form. The question(s) is/are. Is this going to stop/reduce
> spam
> (in the long term) and will this be a more effective way for people to make
> contact for whatever reason(s)?
>
> Andrew
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