[thelist] Using JavaScript for non-clickable email addresses

Sarah Sweeney mr.sanders at designshift.com
Mon Jan 31 09:52:38 CST 2005


>>What I'd like to know is if the technique proposed - clicking on a link
>>to a page which redirects to a mailto: link - would work. Can you
>>redirect to a mailto:? 
> 
> Probably. Wouldn't be too hard to verify...
> 
>>Would bots be able to harvest the email address
>>anyway?
> 
> Sure could.

So is this a technique that people have used in the past and email 
harvesters have learned to work around? Or it is something they *might* 
learn to work around in the future?

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