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I know that simply sticking an email address on a website is a sure-fire way of filling your inbox with spam, but do any of you guys know a way round it?
I came up with my own idea - don't know if it's old hat or not:
HTML
emailremovethisaddres@ serviceremovethisprovider.com
CSS
span.email em { display:none; }
This shows up as [email protected] when viewing the page, but spammers get [email protected] - this has worked perfectly for me for about a year.
There is also a way of making the address clickable using &#nnn; instead of normal characters, e.g. Ėąĉ with the x's removed becomes tim.
I've set-up an alias to my usual email address and have used a combination of both methods at the bottom of each page on my site ([URL]http://timmargh.net/[/URL]). I'll have to wait a month or so to see if it works ...
I came up with my own idea - don't know if it's old hat or not:
HTML
emailremovethisaddres@ serviceremovethisprovider.com
CSS
span.email em { display:none; }
This shows up as [email protected] when viewing the page, but spammers get [email protected] - this has worked perfectly for me for about a year.
There is also a way of making the address clickable using &#nnn; instead of normal characters, e.g. Ėąĉ with the x's removed becomes tim.
I've set-up an alias to my usual email address and have used a combination of both methods at the bottom of each page on my site ([URL]http://timmargh.net/[/URL]). I'll have to wait a month or so to see if it works ...
Hmm, yeah, cheers.
Be checking that out later...
Be checking that out later...
Cheers for that Tyla. V helpful.
Nimco wrote:
> Tyla wrote:
> Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it
> for ages with a lot of success.
>
> Surely it's only a matter of time before they can convert it though?
Probably, but they haven't botherd in the last 3 years! Might have something to do with processing power and the robots inability to work out it's an email address on the fly.
> Tyla wrote:
> Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it
> for ages with a lot of success.
>
> Surely it's only a matter of time before they can convert it though?
Probably, but they haven't botherd in the last 3 years! Might have something to do with processing power and the robots inability to work out it's an email address on the fly.
Tyla wrote:
> Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it
> for ages with a lot of success.
Surely it's only a matter of time before they can convert it though?
> Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it
> for ages with a lot of success.
Surely it's only a matter of time before they can convert it though?
Just use and Email to ASCI converter.
[email protected]
would become:
me@whatev [Remove space here]
er.com
Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it for ages with a lot of success.
Can get the encrypter for free from Modern Bytes Software (Mailto-Encrypter).
[email protected]
would become:
me@whatev [Remove space here]
er.com
Totally spam proof as robots/crawlers can't convert it, beenusing it for ages with a lot of success.
Can get the encrypter for free from Modern Bytes Software (Mailto-Encrypter).
I still maintain the best way of avoiding spam from web sites is to use a feedback form on the site. You can give each client an individual email address for them to use - eg [email protected]
This way you can avoid spam pretty well assuming you block email sent to: info@ sales@ marketing@ webmaster@ admin@ etc... yourdomain.com
This way you can avoid spam pretty well assuming you block email sent to: info@ sales@ marketing@ webmaster@ admin@ etc... yourdomain.com
I know that simply sticking an email address on a website is a sure-fire way of filling your inbox with spam, but do any of you guys know a way round it?
I came up with my own idea - don't know if it's old hat or not:
HTML
emailremovethisaddres@ serviceremovethisprovider.com
CSS
span.email em { display:none; }
This shows up as [email protected] when viewing the page, but spammers get [email protected] - this has worked perfectly for me for about a year.
There is also a way of making the address clickable using &#nnn; instead of normal characters, e.g. Ėąĉ with the x's removed becomes tim.
I've set-up an alias to my usual email address and have used a combination of both methods at the bottom of each page on my site ([URL]http://timmargh.net/[/URL]). I'll have to wait a month or so to see if it works ...
I came up with my own idea - don't know if it's old hat or not:
HTML
emailremovethisaddres@ serviceremovethisprovider.com
CSS
span.email em { display:none; }
This shows up as [email protected] when viewing the page, but spammers get [email protected] - this has worked perfectly for me for about a year.
There is also a way of making the address clickable using &#nnn; instead of normal characters, e.g. Ėąĉ with the x's removed becomes tim.
I've set-up an alias to my usual email address and have used a combination of both methods at the bottom of each page on my site ([URL]http://timmargh.net/[/URL]). I'll have to wait a month or so to see if it works ...