Alan, I've looked at this for a while and there is no guaranteed way of throttling spambots; however, you can confuse the simpler efforts and certainly slow the more determined scrapers.
I wrote a server side app to encode email and mailto: addresses in ISO, Hex or mixed obfuscation. It's at: http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/obfuscate_email.asp Mike Pepper Accessible Web Developer Internet SEO and Marketing Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visidigm.com Administrator Guild of Accessible Web Designers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gawds.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Alan Trick > Sent: 22 February 2005 14:34 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam > > > 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 > ****************************************************** > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.3.0 - Release Date: 21/02/05 > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
