Filter spam

This may sound like I'm giving up but...

[evajo]

I think we can all agree that it would be nice to be able to put our email address on our website without having to use JavaScript and such to disguise it from spam bots.

But what if I put a subject in my mail link that said for example "Don't alter this text" and then made a filter in my email client that deletes all mail from the server directly that doesn't contain this text?

Comments, anyone?

[txbakers]

That would work. Some people also do something like this:

myname[nospam]@mydomain.com and humans know to delete the [nospam] portions.

[chiyo]

actually it took me quite a few months to realise what that nospam bit meant, and that i was meant to remove it. I sent emails to a few using the exact address and of course never got answers.

I guess im human.. well maybe less human than most.

Our solution is now to

1. use disposable encoded email address on the websites, and redirect them to our real never published email addresses. Then when the spam gets too much after a few months from smarty pants guys working out the encoding, we just do a cut and paste though the sites and change them.

2. Use an email form. Use names rather than email addrsses and link them though a mail form which goes to the actual addresses which is "hidden" as much as possible from the robots.

[Ankheg]

email address in a small .JPG that matches the layout of my site, and has, for an alt tag, "[m y n a m e] A-T [w i d g e t s] D-O-T [n e t]". Works well so far, and is adequately munged that most email harvesters can't eat it.