[thelist] Preventing spam spiders from reading mailto links.

[Rodrigo Galindez]

Hmm ... I used to make a little graphic with the mail address ... Just my 2
cents.

Rodrigo Galindez
Information Management Assistant
Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA)
Gral Paz 186 10 A
5000 - Cordoba - Argentina
Tel/fax 54-351-4256278
rodrigo at cedha.org.ar
www.cedha.org.ar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Weller" <themanhimself at philipweller.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: [thelist] Preventing spam spiders from reading mailto links.


> Hello, all.
>
> Recently, while admiring the HTML on a site I was visiting (as Web geeks
> often do) I noticed that they were hiding their e-mail address from spam
> bots by rendering it in escaped character entities.  I've since
implemented
> this technique in my just launched personal site (www.philipweller.com).
>
> I was wondering if those of you much more experienced than myself might
have
> some real-world feedback as to the effectiveness of this technique.  Are
> there any techniques you use and can recommend?  (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.)
>
> Many Thanks,
> Philip Weller
>
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