Re: hiding email addresses from bots

Not necessarily.

Trivially, not all browsers support JS, and many that do allow JS to be 
disabled.

Less trivially, Netscape versions 2-4 have a horrendous bug that *can* 
cause pages to be mis-rendered when JS is used to generate code 'on the 
fly'.  (The bug is fixed in version 6)

At 05:45 PM 10/02/00, you wrote:
>"Janet L. Cady" wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know an easy way to hide e-mail addresses from bots that 
> basically glean
> > this info from html pages?  Yep, I know about using forms, but even then, a
> > recipient carries an email address on it which could be picked up by a 
> smart
> > bot.
>
>This should work if the bot parses un-rendered html.
>
><script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript">
>   <!--
>     document.write('<a href="mail' + 'to:ahubble@' + 'idirect.com">ahubble' +
>'(at)idirect.com</a>');
>   // -->
></script> 
>

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Chuck Upsdell
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