Hi Alan I prefer to use the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" method, as it's pretty self-explanatory and easier to understand that me[-at-]foo[-dot-]bar.
There are other options, such as using a simple (ie: plaintext, no image-generation) CAPTCHA that then directs the site visitor to a page with the email address. Speaking of CAPTCHAs, can someone explain why we need image-based ones for blogsites and low-traffic sites? I seriously doubt that site spammers are going to write even the simplist of Visual Basic (or worse) to parse an XHTML file to extract a plaintext CAPTCHA. Since employing paintext CAPTCHAs on my sites, I haven't seen any increase in spam. -- -David R ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:33:51 -0500 >I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on creative ways to keep >spambots from harvesting email addresses on you page, and still keep >then accessable to diabled people and text-browsers. Here's my thoughts > > * You could do something like me[AT]foo[DOT]bar but the problem with > this is that many none geeks are not familiar with this kind of > anti-spam thing and may give up trying to contact you when the get > a bounce back saying (surprise, surprise) me[AT]foo[DOT]bar does > not exist. > * You could do something like me<span > style='display:none'>nospamplease</div>@foo.bar, but this wouldn't > work for people without basic css support, and goes against some > basic accessabilty rules. > * You could use javascript, but then you block non-js users which is > no better than the above solution > * You could use an image, but then you have to decide what to put in > the alt attribute. If you put the address there then you pretty > much defeat the point of the image because i'm pretty sure most > (or enough) spambots can't take addresses from alt attributes. If > you don't, then you break accessability with text-browsers. > >Anyone else have any good solutions? >Alan Trick >****************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help >****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
