Re: hide email address

Yes, it's possible.

However, in all the years I've done this, those email addresses I post 
using decimal equivalents have never received spam.  Perhaps with so many 
available accounts out there, why go the extra mile just to get an 
insignificant few that protect their accounts? :)

Remember, think like a typical user and *not* a web developer.

At 12:02 PM 1/21/02 -0600, SASS_head_ wrote:
>So couldn't intelligent spiders then convert decimal equivalents back to the
>ascii text?  It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to tell it if @
>return '@' and so on.
>
>--
>SASS_head_
>headworms.net
>
> > From: Kukla Fran and Ollie <weblists2001(at)yahoo.com>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:48:13 -0800
> > To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> > Cc: SASS_head_ <shawn(at)headworms.net>, Lori Eldridge <lorield(at)qwest.net>
> > Subject: Re: hide email address
> >
> > Not necessarily.
> >
> > Intelligent spyders will be able to read this with no problem because the
> > JavaScript actually writes the email address with the page as it is
> > rendered.  On top of that, using JavaScript places this in the context of a
> > user dependency -- if a user has JavaScript turned off, they will not see
> > the email address.
> >
> > Another method is to encode the email address, changing it from its ASCII
> > characters into its decimal equivalents.
> >
> > You can go to http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html and try it 
> yourself.
> >
> > So this address,  yourname(at)youraddress.com is encoded to
> >
> > 
> &#121;&#111;&#117;&#114;&#110;&#097;&#109;&#101;&#064;&#121;&#111;&#117;&#114;
> > &#097;&#100;&#100;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#115;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;
> >
> > A web page using this type of encoding will "display" the email address to
> > the human user as yourname(at)youraddress.com, but the actual source code will
> > be in decimal.
> >
> > If you are afraid you might mess up the long decimal coding, then use only
> > those parts as necessary.  Changing only the "@" in an address makes it a
> > bit easier: yourname&#064;youraddress.com
> >
> > Kukla


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