Stop spammers getting email address
April 5th, 2007
This is a great piece of script that you can use to include an email address in your web page, but stop spambots picking it up.
“Junk email (a.k.a. spam) is a part of everyone’s life if they ever put their email address on the web. For HTML authors, site admins, and for people who want a little credit on the page that they put online, it is a constant problem. You want to include your email address on the page, but you don’t want your email address to be harvested by spambots.
The best thing you can do is encode your email address so that browsers can see it and spambots can not.”
April 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
The only problem now is that email harvesters are getting smarter and actually understand javascript now. The html encoding has been useless for quite some time.
April 11th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Jeremy -
Are they really that clever now? Have you got any links to people selling scripts that claim to harvest emails listed in this way?
What would you recommend as an alternative? Are they also clever enough to pick up written email addresses with no links EG: bangyourdrum AT gmail DOT com ?