NoSpam email javascript link and other no spam tips

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Spammers use harvesters to get emails to add to their lists, thus posting your email on a public webspace has always been the surest way to get spam. Many people have taken to posting their emails in these formats:

Quote:

name AT hotmail DOT com

Quote:

[email protected]

Those tricks are intended to fool email harvesting programs while not fooling humans, but as always some of the humans are fooled too.

Here is a javaascript that compiles the email address on the fly and displays as a regular email link to the end user (as long as they have a javascript enabled browser) but confuses most spam bots.

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">

<!-- 

var name = "name";

var domain = "domain.com"; 

document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');

document.write(name + '@' + domain + '</a>'); 



//-->

</script>

In the above code you must replace the following red parts (with the blue part of the example emails):
var name = "name"; (e.g. name@hotmail.com

and

var domain = "domain.com"; (e.g. name@hotmail.com )

I will post some even better email cloaking tools in the future.

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If you'd like to use the above script but do not want the link to consist of the compiled email use the following:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">

<!-- 

var name = "name";

var domain = "domain.com"; 

document.write('<a class=\"headerlinks\" href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');

document.write('Contact' + '</a>'); 



//-->

</script>

Replace the same parts as in the example in the first post but then also replace the word contact with teh word you want your nospam email link to say.

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c++ is better, at least i know it. <grin>

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what the hell does C++ have to do with this?

Pages like this make me cackle with glee:
http://www.robietherobot.com/spamfight.htm

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@Craven de Kere,

My typical solution these days is to just mix some numeric character references and/or character entity references into the email address source, e.g. href="mailto:me@my.com". No JavaScript requirement, no negative side effects, still easily readable even in the source, but much less spam. Sure, it's much easier to write a harvester that can deal with this than one that understands JavaScript, but it works well enough for my needs.

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