[Web4lib] anti-spam email address

[Paul Conrad]

Pierre,

This is a nice little tool also:  http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Engratt
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:34 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] anti-spam email address

Pierre,
 
One effective (albeit more extreme) technique I've used in the past was to
capture the screen displaying my e-mail address and crop out the image of
just my e-mail address, turning it into a GIF image.  I'd then position the
GIF in place of the HTML text, and add the anchor tag to turn the image into
a link.  
 
>From a mechanical perspective, the link redirects the user to a form on
your site that is driven by your scripting language (ASP, PHP, Perl, etc.).
If you are allowing ASP to send mail through your IIS server, for instance,
you can easily instruct the form to send the form contents to someone's
account without ever disclosing the e-mail address within the rendered HTML.
To the end user, the experience would seem very similar to the traditional
"mailto:" method.
 
Hope that helps,
Steve

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