Mailto links that discourage spammers

[Stacy Pober]

Hey, I found an answer to my own question!

Some time back, I had asked on this list for ways that I could have my 
email address on my webpage, yet discourage the spambots from 
getting ahold of it.  I ended up using character literals for part of the 
addresss and getting rid of the actual "mailto" link. 

However, the Dr. Website column in a recent issue of Internet World
gave a nice javascript solution for this that uses a javascript to 
create the mailto link.  The archive page for this column is: 

http://www.webdeveloper.com/drweb/19990329-drweb.html

and another, similar script is at the JavaScript Source site:

http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/email-protector.html

The Dr. Website column also mentioned a page at SiteUp that will 
automatically convert  your entire email address into character entities
and will email the  converted address to you.   (Just be aware that
unless you want to be added to the mailing list for two newsletters 
that SiteUp offers, you must check both of the "No Thanks" boxes
on the form.)  http://www.siteup.com/encoder.html

If you'd rather do the character entity translation yourself, here's a 
site with the HTML 3.2 entities (Okay, maybe it isn't the latest spec
but I doubt the a-Z characters have changed.): 

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html#latin1

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