[Web4lib] anti-spam email adress

[Marion Sumerianlibrarian]

won't some of the brainiacs of the list weigh in on
this topic? 

i'd have thought some uber-mensche had the definitive
solution to this one long ago.

roy and peter, please report.

ms

--- Pierre Nault <pierrenault at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     Me and my colleagues put our email adress on our
> website library and we
> receive lots of spam. One of the reason for that is
> because the
> indexing-robots are searching the sign "@" on web
> pages and with regular
> expressions, constituing a database.  We are using
> the mailto attribute in
> the web pages, and we have also our email adress in
> a database, so there is
> an ASP page for that (generating HTML). I
> "encrypted" my email adress in
> hexadecimal, with % signs trying to find a solution.
> When I mouse over the
> link in Internet Explorer I can see the encryption
> (on the lower bar of the
> navigator), but with Firefox, I can see clearly my
> email adress... and that
> maid me think that if Firefox can see that, there
> may be some
> indexing-robots that have that capabality.
> So is there a way to put an email adress on a web
> site without being spam ?
> Do the indexing-robot can find email adress on an
> ASP page (dynamic instead
> of static HTML). At last, do we have to put just our
> names on the web pages
> and tell our patrons to complete themselves our
> email adress ?
> 
> Pierre Nault
> Bibliothécaire de référence (Sociologie // Science,
> technologie et société)
> Bibliothèque centrale de l'UQAM



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