Email Encoding Script

[bethohio3]

This is my most-used JavaScript code; I include it on all of my pages.

><script language="Javascript">
var ATSIGN = '@';
var PERIOD = '.';
var MT     = 'mailto:';
var CEXT   = 'com';
var NEXT   = 'net';
var OEXT   = 'org';
var AEXT   = 'aol';

function EM(ext, domn, urname, subj, linkText) {
  var addr;
  var sendingTo;
  addr = urname + ATSIGN + domn + PERIOD + ext;
  document.write(('<a href="' + MT + addr + '?subject=' + subj + '"\>' + linkText + '</a>')); 
}
</script>

 

To use the function I do:

>     <script language="Javascript">
  EM(CEXT, 'hotmail', 'username', 'From website.com (Which Page)', 'FirstName LastName'); 
     </script>

 

This creates a mailto: link with the person's full name as the anchor and the referring site and/or page as the subject of the message.

 

This is not, however, collected by email address harvesting spiders, since the HTML code does not contain an actual mailto link with an address.

 

--Beth

(Yours for a spam-free world)

[Lianna]

Whoa! Now that is a very cool protective feature for your visitors! Do they know how nice you are????

 

Thanks for sharing this.

 

Li

[KevinW]

Thanks, Beth.

 

For more info on that method, read here.

 

There have also been other methods of "hiding" an email link on a page. Some essentially converting the @ sign. But I would suspect as web spiders get more intelligent, that will be an easy one to break. read here.

 

kw

[dognamedmoses]

Ok..

 

That is really cool really really cool...

 

Thanks.

[boxturt]

I do a couple of things similar to all the previously posted suggestions. Call me super paranoid

<script LANGUAGE="javascript">

var first = 'ma';

var second = 'il';

var third = 'to:';

var address = 'boxturt';

var domain = 'boxturt';

var ext = 'com';

var sub = '?';

var suba = 'subject=Comments';

document.write('<a href="');

document.write(first+second+third);

document.write(address);

document.write('@');

document.write(domain);

document.write('.');

document.write(ext);

document.write(sub);

document.write(suba);

document.write('">');

document.write('Email Us</a>');

</script>

This seems to work pretty well. Sometimes I just convert to ALL ascii, but I don't know how safe that is.....

boxturt@boxt

urt.com

translates to my email addy. There is a good text to ascii converter here:

dascii.exe

[TCH-Don]

NoteTab text editor has this function built in.

its called hide email, just type the address and click to hide.

[tastewar]

Here's some research info on email address obfuscation:

 

Spam Report