> 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
If you only need to protect a small number of email addresses, there's another approach: throwaway email addresses. I use www.sneakemail.com email addresses on various sites (not to mention email lists with public archives)... when an email address gets too much spam, I just kill it off. The real email addresses are never visible, so they can't be harvested. For the user, the only downside is the email address looks a bit odd. It's not suitable for long-term contacts, but then it shouldn't need to be used more than a couple of times before that relationship is established. Of course you can protect the email address using encoding tricks and forms, etc; it still makes a good fallback position to be able to get rid of the email address. Just a thought, anyway :) h -- --- <http://cheshrkat.blogspot.com/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
