How to write email addressess to prevent spam

email prevent spam

[zoffmann]

Hello,

how can I write contact email addresses on my web pages and avoid to get spam ?

somebody writes something like this myname (at) mydomain.com

which other ways are to accomplish this task?

best regards
zoff

[drooh]

some people have used flash for this, i use a thing called mail to encoder. you can search for "mail to encoder solmetra". other than that use a contact form to avoid showing email addresses period.

[penders]

I have in the past marked up the email address like:

<span class="antispam">someone -at- example -dot- com</span>

And use JavaScript onload to turn this into a mailto: anchor. Email scanning bots aren't supposed to run JavaScript(?) and it appears at least human readable if JS is disabled. However, I am beginning to wonder how clever the email collecting bots are? This isn't a particulary difficult pattern to pick up with a regular expression. Will they bother? I have still received spam to email addresses obfuscated in this way, but it is possible that this may have come from other sources...