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CRX

11-12-2003, 05:19 PM

Hi there,

Just started html and building a page, and my mail address is on the page. Spam hazzard you would say, so I thought up this because I don't want to work with a form:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>No Spam</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><CENTER>
<A HREF="MAILTO:info@NOSPAMdomain.org">
info@domain.org</A>
</CENTER></BODY></HTML>

Because I want my site as clean and basic as possible I want my mail to appear normal but I don't want spammers to find my address, so thats why. The user does have to remove the no spam part in the mailto link in his/hers mail app thats all. So I guess it's a good sollution or is it... ?

Dynasty

11-12-2003, 07:23 PM

You realise there are collectors out there that can just filter out the NOSPAM part of that right :P

Daybreak_0

11-12-2003, 08:13 PM

Also another problem you will have is that Users may not remove the text. Could be annoying.

There are a few javascript around that do the job, some where the address is hidden in the javascript file. Whether you want to use Javascript is another problem.

good luck

Day

DCElliott

11-12-2003, 08:29 PM

Try this site: http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php

DE

CRX

11-13-2003, 05:14 AM

Thanks a lot! that java script is much better, I tested it in ie netscape and opera, it displays fine in all just netscape gives an error on click, but I geuss that one ns user that want's to mail me will know about copy paste.
Now I just need to test it on a mac, but that should not be a problem, ofcourse you never know with safari...

Thanks again.

(edit)

Correction, it works on netscape also, the error concers the mail app that comes with ns, and because I only use it for testing it's not setup.