Email address on Web site to avoid spammers

Is their a foolproof way to put your email address on Web pages so that
spammer robots can't pick it up?

 

Smoker vaguely muttered something like ...

As a picture maybe ...

 

Thanks, perhaps we misunderstand each other. The robots pick up the HTML
<"mail to"> code, regardless if an email address appears on the face of the
page or not.

An email address can be coded, but they're onto all the codes AFAIK.

 

Smoker vaguely muttered something like ...

If the website address can be clicked and thus launch an email program, then
a bot can collect it ... Pictures make the sender of email work a little,
but they _do_ guarantee that bots can't harvest the address ..

 

Sorry Paul. I get you now. Type the email addy on the pic, right? Thanks
I'll give that a shot.

 

As mentioned , using a picture.

Since 'mail to; is fairly evil anyway, using it gives one what one
deserves. Perhaps a form it can be processed server side sending the
mail without without having to make any mail addresses visible.

IIRC there is a mail to encryptor, but haven't heard of it for a while.

Try the alt.html.* group(s), it's a fairly common subject,
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.html

Will always happen.


Me

 

I've used this site a few times with mixed results
(http://ktmatu.com/info/email-address-obfuscator/). I'd be interested to
hear people's opinions.

 

Automatic Email Munger claims it can do that:

http://perso.crans.org/~raffo/aem/index.php

 

Whatcha going to do for people using text/aural browsers?

 

Thank you Bob.

I believe this is one of those encryptions that spammers have picked off
long ago.
In their own bottom line words, "This method is not 100% foolproof!"

Suppose that spammers have their own newsgroups/networks? Just like here,
the experts share their knowledge with the novices and in-betweens?

My results were mixed just like yours during the first week of trying
Obfuscator, but I feel like Obfuscator was obfuscated almost entirely during
its first month of giving us a temporary block.

My ISP is Verizon, and I never, ever, get spam via the email address I have
with them. It is all from my Web site that redirects the email thru Verizon.

And I wonder what does WhoIs and the various registrars do, that domain name
owners and their email addresses don't get spammed via that avenue?

I can't help but think that there is something we are all missing -- and
I've always regarded this as the best and longest lived site on the Internet
for curing problems... where the main experts are.

I appreciate all the responses to this thread and hope we can keep it going
until we reach a resolution that will stop spam once and for all. If we can
stop it from scouting our email addresses on Web sites, it will be easy to
stop trivial spams from entering our email inboxes.

I had a problem of illegal file linking to the tune of 70GB a month and it
only took a program that blocked such from outside sources when you choose
to block any file extension that was called for as a jpg, jpeg, avi, mov,
gif, etc., whatever you specify.

Of course you can spec filters to block emails that have no source of origin
on your PC, except how can you do this on the Internet when most of your
important email comes from those who visit your site?

Sorry to be lengthy. Let's put our heads together and figure this out.

 

Best way is to use a graphic to display your email address. Second best
way follows:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/107.htm#1

 

Certainly.....record a .wav file of the spoken addie and embed it under
a link named "email".

 

What's to figure out? Use a form.

 

Blinky the Shark vaguely muttered something like ...

Heheheh, swotiwusthinkin ...

 

Smoker vaguely muttered something like ...

Nice sentiments, but that's exactly what all the 'obfuscator' type apps have
been trying to do, professionally, for years ..

Unfortunately, unless you can control who even looks at your site, then
using any kind of a link is a chink in the protection. Any code you devise
to stop spammers is likely to also stop legitimate customers who are,
probably, less sopohisticated in website design than the spammers are.

What kind of visitor do you want to email you ?

Are they existing customers after information, new customers, prospective
customers, general public just browsing, is your site well advertised, is
the site an authoritative site that generates a lot of email questions, does
the site offer services etc etc.

There are hundreds of similar questions to be asked before determining what
kind of code you need, the levels of access required, the type of protection
you need etc etc

If you rely on the site for income then it may be worth your while employing
a decent web designer, even if only for a consultation, to determine your
exact requirements. Designing your email and spam 'protection' by
committee, this newsgroup, will only lead to a half-assed attempt with
different views opposing others ...

Personally, I'd put up with the spam, but use Mailwasher or somesuch, if
stopping spam even remotely meant that I lost one customer ... the one
customer who could easily be after exactly what I'm selling, and wanted
thousands of them, and would set me up for life if they emailed me.