[thelist] Using JavaScript for non-clickable email addresses

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 00:47:07 CST 2005


Sarah,

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:56:08 -0400, Sarah Sweeney
<mr.sanders at designshift.com> wrote:
> 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.


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