[thelist] Hiveware email address encoder

[Chris W. Parker]

rudy <mailto:rudy937 at rogers.com>
    on Friday, July 25, 2003 4:09 PM said:

> we're all agreed on the need to publish an email address on a site,
> so that potential customers (or whoever) can contact you
> 
> alles klar so far

haha...

> we also want to do this in a very special way
> 
> if possible, we want to do it in a way that spambots will not pick it
> up, but humans can still understand it, use it, and contact you

how about an auto-generated picture that looks exactly like regular
text*. in php it could work like this (pseudo-code):

<p>why hullo thar m'lady. if you'd like to go on a date with me send an
email to <? emailpic("hotknight at kingdom.com"); ?>.</p>

Now you might be saying "well that doesn't allow the user to click the
link and have it open their mail reader". Ok then, what about having a
link like this wrapped around the picture?

<a href="sendmail.php?user=1"><img src=.../></a>

??

Then when the user clicked that link, they would be taken to another
page that would do some magic** and then redirect back to the same page
the user came from.

Please point out the flaws in these ideas, otherwise i will start to
work on the emailpict(); function.

Chris.

* i've never seen this anywhere before and so i am going to claim this
as my idea and so don't any one of you steal it (that is to claim it as
your own) i would also like to charge everyone 1c each time it's used as
a license fee. no arguing allowed! (i'm going to be sooo rich.) :O

** by magic i mean mimic the same function that the mailto: link
performs. probably something to do with http headers?