Hiding Your Email In Your Webpage, How?

[justme]

Hi;

I am looking for ways of hiding email address/s in your webpage from email collector, I have seen some topics but I lost the link, and I am not sure if I have seen it in TCH forum or not.

 

I am sure there are couple of ways to protect your email addresses by encryption or other ways,

 

 

your help is appreciated in advance.

 

Thanks

[kaseytraeger]

I never place my email address inside a web page.

 

On my own website, I use a PHP form mailer that allows people to fill out a form and send me an email. My email address is encoded inside the PHP script, but the script is not accessed directly by a web browser, so I don't have to worry about it being harvested by spambots.

 

If I am leaving a comment on someone's blog, I will always code my email address with some extra characters that are easily recognizable by a human that they need to be removed but will not be understood by a spambot. For example, "myemailREMOVETHISTEXT@email.com."

 

I have seen others write their email address as "emailname - at - domain - dot - extension"

 

It's all a matter of how you want to do it. TCH also has a page describing different methods of "hiding" your email address. (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id197.htm)

 

I would like to stress that I personally don't trust any email address obfuscating method with 100% reliability because I don't know much about spambots, and they may be getting more intelligent as time goes by. So take all suggestions with that in mind.

[TCH-Bruce]

Or you can create an image of your email address, just don't create a mailto link for it.

[TCH-Don]

I have to agree with kasey,

any method of encoding e-mail is well known by spambots

A php form with your e-mal address inside is the only safe way.

Edited September 14, 2004 by TCH-Don

[justme]

Thank you very much for the quick answer, I guess I have to make a form mail, I start to find a php script for form mail.

 

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

Look no further. Here is a link to the one most of us recommend called the Ultimate Form Mailer.

 

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id65.htm

[Deverill]

I use a javascript piece of code that constructs the email address in the visitor's browser. Currently there are no email scrapers that I know of which render scripts. It's probably not going to be long before they do so the form is a much better solution since you're at a point you can do that just as well as a script. I just wanted to mention another common way. Not better, but common.

[justme]

Thank you all; I have used a form , thanks to TCH-Don for the link ,and it works great, thank a lot for your replies.

 

good luck