Email address

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I believe it is bad practise to show an email address directly on a web
page, because of spam etc...

Is the best way then to create an hyperlink to an email address from a set
of words e.g.: 'to email -click here' or is this also open to misuse?

Thanks - Steve.
 
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I believe it is bad practise to show an email address directly on a web
page, because of spam etc...

Is the best way then to create an hyperlink to an email address from a set
of words e.g.: 'to email -click here' or is this also open to misuse?
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This site uses a number of methods

http://huuweb.org/contacts.htm

a javascript to post the emails but they all have the same domain

a form to fill in and send an email

and the bottom one uses a differenc emethod. If you hover over the email
addy, you get a message to copy and paste the email to your browser. I am
sure there are others but these work for us.

pat
 
I believe it is bad practise to show an email address directly on a web
page, because of spam etc...

Is the best way then to create an hyperlink to an email address from a set
of words e.g.: 'to email -click here' or is this also open to misuse?
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That's all I have done for the last ten years on my web sites and I
don't get much spam.

Steve
 
That's all I have done for the last ten years on my web sites and I
don't get much spam.

Steve
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If you have an email address as a link (and sometimes as text)
anywhere in a web page it will be picked up by spammers. It doesn't
matter if you like to it with a graphic or not - if the mailto link is
behind the scenes it will be picked up. The spammers are not manually
reviewing pages, they have programs fetching and looking for mailto
links and apparent email addresses and grabbing the addresses.

The only real solution is to use a form and send the data to a program
on a server that filters spammers and send the email to the
destination from the program.

A javascript routine that builds the link from scratch or otherwise
obfuscates will cut out almost all of the problem (except the fact
that not everyone has JS turned on).

The obfuscation link previously posted is a good start when teamed
with a graphic for the visual address. That still irritates people who
want to cut and past the address, but it stops most spammers.
 
If you have an email address as a link (and sometimes as text)
anywhere in a web page it will be picked up by spammers. It doesn't
matter if you like to it with a graphic or not - if the mailto link is
behind the scenes it will be picked up. The spammers are not manually
reviewing pages, they have programs fetching and looking for mailto
links and apparent email addresses and grabbing the addresses.
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Yes, I know how it works but it has never been much of a problem for
me. If it did become a problem I can change my website email addresses
in a few minutes and the message redirectors will do the rest within a
few hours. It's possible I might lose a sale or two but I can live
with that.

Steve
 
Yes, I know how it works but it has never been much of a problem for
me. If it did become a problem I can change my website email addresses
in a few minutes and the message redirectors will do the rest within a
few hours. It's possible I might lose a sale or two but I can live
with that.

Steve
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Agreed. I go that route too sometimes. The only issue is if someone
has the old contact address and continues to use that. You can avoid
that problem by always replying from your "real" address to any
inquires.
 
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