I'm setting up a simple website for my girlfriend's piano business. She uses yahoo mail, so almost all of the spam will be filtered out, but I'd still like to minimize that even further.
So if I understand everyone so far Mail to: with a different label will still be found by robots and that an email form would be better at dissuading spambots. I can also use an obfuscator to mess up the spambot's results. Yahoo does have excellent filtering and I want the reader to be able to see the email address, so maybe the best thing is to let the spam filters do their work. --- Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/26/06, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does it make much of a difference whether the email address is visible on a > > web page or > whether > > there is a link to a email address when it comes to preventing spam? > > > > Spam scrapers read the same forums we do. Anything you can thing to do > to hide the address, they can think of to decode it. It's like DRM - > it may dissuade the tempted, but won't be much of a deterrent to the > dishonest. > > What is it you are trying to accomplish? If you want a "mail me" page > on a web site, it's probably best to do a web form based email. Otoh, > if you want a potential customer/client to get in touch with you, > giving them all the info is the right way to go. At > http://www.tedroche.com/contact.php, I provide all of the above, and > vCard to boot. I've been fortunate that my spam on that account is > pretty much handled for me by a set of filters. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.