Hiding web contact e-mail addresses from the evil guys

We have used the ASCII code for the "@" sign. So the code would appear <a href="mailto:jason.bartholme&-#-64-;gmail.com">me</a>. (Remove " - ")

Also, we have used the email address as an image. Both methods appears to be effective.

You can direct your visitors to a contact form to reduce spam as well.

 

Contact forms are generally the best bet, but eventually (unless you are insanely meticulous) you'll need a spam filter like SpamAssassin anyway. I still don't understand why the government doesn't go after spammers much more aggressively. Many of them are easy to catch, and they certainly cost billions in lost man-hours a year.

 

I was a bit unclear. I should have said, "&#8230; 2. it would be trivial to harvest the mailto: links with a javascript enabled bot should the cost of processing the page with javascript become less than the value of the addy."

As long as an ample supply of unprotected addys exist, the slowdown caused by parsing javascript would be prohibitive, so the method should be effective for a while, yet. In no way do I suggest manual harvesting.

cheers,

gary

 

I used his java encoder, but replaced the "text" e-mail address
with a graphic that shows the address.

Wish me anti-spam luck!

 

A secured form is the best bet - you never expose the email address at all.

One of my sites was getting 10's of messages per day posted to the form (much like blog comment spam) but the adding of an intelligent captcha stopped 100% of it.

 

this is a standard Email Address Encoder:

http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/computing/MailSpamstop.php

Code (markup):

Right here an Email Address Ofuscator, allowing you to try different protecting methods:

http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not

Code (markup):

 

Personally, I hate filling out forms, so I would rather not
ask my customers to. It may have to come to this, but
so far my strategy has kept me spamless.

 

I don't have anything against this, though it seems like the spammers
that are smart enough to create robots to search for addresses
are smart enough to decode decimal or hex notation, though
from the experience of others, so far they don't.

My biggest problem with this is when I cut and paste the coded
information into my web design program, the helpful elves
inside the program
automatically decode it into ASCII.

 

I just use a good old gif image instead of text.

Looks abit messy but its nice and simple and within my technical abilities.