[Web4lib] Mailto: links that can't be harvested by spambots?

[Thomas Dowling]

On 2/18/2007 6:06 AM, David Rothman wrote:

> 
> Any opinions on whether or not this sort of solution is effective?



You're approaching this by asking what's best for you.  Look at it from
your users' persepctive.  They're probably already tentative about
contacting a stranger.  If they're going to do so, they just want the
simplest way to contact you, regardless of their browser settings,
accessibility issues, etc. So just put up a regular old mailto: link
where it's appropriate, and get yourself a good spam and security
filter.  Or, build a good contact form that cc's the user and is chock
full of security and anti-form-spam checks.

-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu