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Meatball Joined: December 24, 2005 Status: Offline Posts: 48 Rep: PIP Level 1 (318)PIP Level 1 (318)PIP Level 1 (318)PIP Level 1 (318)
Disguising email addresses in html.. Old Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:21:02 AM #14178 Perm Link
What is the best way to disguise an email address from spam bots? A few I have seen/used are the @ sign as an image, which I like because in Firefox, not IE (obviously), if you set the alternate text to "@", when the user highlights to copy and paste the email address, the image will be converted to an @ sign, and the user may not even notice. you could do it like php.net does it: "example at gmail dot com". And last way I know of is to stick random characters in the email address and tell the user to pick them out, which i dislike the most.

I am not sure, but I believe I have seen a way using javascript, which siplays the email address in 3 different parts and adds the "@" and ".". Any one got any others?
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Re: Disguising email addresses in html.. Old Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:00:04 AM #14179 Perm Link
In response to Meatball #14178
I like the @ images idea. Another is just to display the entire email as an image.

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(No Title) Old Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:02:37 PM #14334 Perm Link
Many spam bots nowadays are trained to recognize the whatever (at) xxx (dot) com method. I've seen the entire email as image technique used frequently, although it uses a bit more bandwidth.

As for new ideas, displaying the email vertically maybe (but still can be detected easily).
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(No Title) Old Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:05:38 PM #14495 Perm Link
In response to xaver #14334
Do you like elphant shoes and goat hats?

Edited at Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:02:00 PM
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(No Title) Old Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:51:12 PM #14505 Perm Link
Javascript is nice, but there are those who run the NoScript plugin, which disables it (although you can have an "allowed site" list).
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