Monday, October 11, 2004

Prevent spammers from stealing your email

Don’t put email addresses on a website!

Spammers WILL lift those addresses directly from your website, unless you take special precautions. This article explains some ways to hide your email addresses on websites from spammers.

Michael recommends a javascript to hide your email address from spammers. Though this message is not fool-proof but it still does the trick 90% of the times.

Here is the full code listing:
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Here’s a form that will allow you to encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity.

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