[thelist] hiding email addresses

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 07:02:02 CDT 2008


Fred Jones wrote:
>>> What about a JPG of the email? That's what I have done for some sites.
>>>       
>> But the JPG would need an alt attribute to make it accessible....
>>     
>
> That can be done with words: fred at fred dot com.
>
> I don't *think* robots pick that up. Yet.
>   
You think wrong. Robots even OCR scan pictures. Fact is that *anything* 
you do is hurting users with good intentions more than evil doers.

What does seem the least annoying way is to say "my name is chris, this 
is my domain, email me".





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