SPAM-protect your email address
You'd like to have an "email me" link on your blog, but don't want to receive more SPAM on it? There's a way to have a clickable email address published, without the SPAM-robots seeing it.
The problem with publishing your email address as a simple mailto: link is that there are bots on the web harvesting for these, and once your address gets into their databases, there's no stop from SPAMs.
Of course you could write your address distorted somehow like this:
myREMOVETHISname [at] myserver.com
but it's not the most elegant way, and some visitors might not trouble copy-pasting and editing the address.
Instead, you can use the free Email Address Encoder application from Syronex. The concept is that email-harvesting SPAMbots cannot run JavaScript code, but probably all your human visitors' browsers can. So the email address is JavaScript-encoded, but gets revealed once somebody clicks on the generated link, so the whole process is transparent for your visitors.
Strongly recommended.
April 05, 2006
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