Why not simply display the email address as a simple mailto only when the browser is a screen reader?
On 10/17/07, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17/10/07 (14:16) Patrick said: > > >Fix your spam issues at the mail server + mail client end, not at the > >web page end, would be my advice. > > David said: > >I, long ago, gave up trying. Methods are either highly ineffective, > >or block out users you want as well as spam bots. I take the view > >that email addresses are going to end up on spam lists eventually no > >matter what I do, and just run spam filtering software. > > So the general consensus would seem to be "forgeddabowdit". > I wondered if that would be the result, but I'm surprised that there > isn't a workaround -- only because almost everything else that I thought > would be impossible some clever person has found a way to do. > > To join with Andrew Maben, however, I'd be curious to know whether > spambots decode encoded entity text, eg: > > 'user' > becomes > 'user' > > (ignore quote marks). > > > I assume that they can read them perfectly easily -- browsers can, after > all -- but it'd be good to know for sure. > Same question for screen readers. > > -- > Rick Lecoat > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
