[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="&#103;&#114;&#101;&#121;&#97;&#110;&#103;&#101;&#108;&#64;&#97;&#108;
&#116;&#101;&#114;&#110;&#97;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#101;-&#98;&#101;&#97;&#117;
&#116;&#121;.&#99;&#111;&#109;">

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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