listing email address w/out inviting spam?

[rushamy]

Hello -

I just uploaded my new site and wanted to list my (new) email address on it for prospective employers (it has my portfolio on it).
Is there a way to list my email address without spiders or whatever to add my address to spam lists? I assume that not adding a <mailto:""> would help.

How about adding spaces like
name @ example.com
instead of [e-mail]

Thanks, everyone!

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

Welcome To WebMasterWorld :)

You may put it as a small image but the user will not able to click it

Or search G for "scramble email address" and you will find an online services to generate a Scrambled email code which will not be spidered by email bots.

Abdelrhman,

[pageoneresults]

You could also utilize the javascript method of disguising email addresses [webmasterworld.com].

[photon]

Hi rushamy, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

This is a popular subject. Here some recent threads that covered this:

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[sem4u]

I use a snippet of javascript:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<a href="mailto:sales' + '@' + 'domain.com">' + 'sales' + '@' + 'domain.com</a>');
</script>

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[mack]

In this situation I would think about perhaps using a form. That way the user can contact you without actualy having to know your email address, they simply fill in a form and press send.

You could script something for this purpose in Php, Perl etc. There are also lots of free scripts to do this for you. try a search for "feedback form script" or something similar. Many of these scripts will be free.

Mack.

[Macguru]

Best stuff around : [automaticlabs.com...]

Free to use, best encryption I have seen so far.

[kodaks]

You could simply put the following:
myname AT mysite.com

[lexis200]

If you use Dreamweaver, there's a great extension called Ultimailto that scrambles the address. It's free as well... [colmgallagher.com...]

I use it on my sites, and haven't been spammed yet, whereas the older email addresses I used before scrambling them get tons of spam every day.

Cheers

Dave

[euripydes]

The spammers will get you eventually though... I have always used javascript to munge my email address, and it's worked very well... but evenetually, someone will human-spider your site and the spam will come. Not nearly as much, but you will never be spam free.

[shinyblue]

I would think that the spambots would catch on to many of these techniques and render them ineffective.

If the browser can decrypt the email address, couldn't the spambot?

Couldn't a spambot put together AT as being a replacement for @?

The form is the best solution I've found. Just be sure you don't use one where you have to set the "to" address into the HTML for the form. That defeats the whole purpose.

[Palehorse]

Javascript?

In todays hostile internet everyone in my house surfs with IE on high security and that prohibits java. So there is a percentage that cannot contact you due to this.

The solution?

A form. A form that leads to a script that is secure and has your email address in the code and not on the page. (spammers will extract it, even if it is not visible, as long as it is on the page, even in form fields it will be gotten to.).

I took an old formail.pl and modified it to hard code my email address into it. (to prevent formmail abuse).

It is not hard, just use a text editor, look for the mailer routine, replace the To: variable with your email address. Do it in this format name/@mydomain.com Don't forget the slash. Test it if it don;t work reverse the slash (cause I am not sure which way to lean the slash /\)

You will be all set. No spam, everyone can contact you and no need for java.