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Best way to put e-mail address on website? (1 Viewer)

Jacamar

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What is the best way to allow someone browsing my webpage to e-mail me? I am not interested in a bunch of spam, so I need an option that will not allow spammers to easily get ahold of my address.

Thanks,
 
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Chris,
Just write everything out longhand, and then explain that obviously whoever really wants to e-mail you has to put it in the form that everybody knows.

e.g. chrisjacamar (at) gobbledygook (dot) com
 
I use a small jpg with an image of the text. No spambot is gonna catch me out now.
 

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Jacamar said:
What is the best way to allow someone browsing my webpage to e-mail me? I am not interested in a bunch of spam, so I need an option that will not allow spammers to easily get ahold of my address.
Thanks,

Hi

I write it out like:

johnjones*aol.com please replace * with @
 
I pinched this idea I saw somewhere. You build up a mailto link using javascript. A program scraping email addresses off web pages will not recognise it as an address. See my email link on http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~merula
for an example. I've had this up for years and get hardly any spam.

<script language="JavaScript">
user = "alastair.rae";
site = "gmail.com";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + site + '\">');
document.write('E-mail Alastair</a>');
</script>
 
I use a script similar to Alastairs's. Slightly more complicated though.

<script><!--
function escramble(){var a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i
a='<a href=\"mai'
b='name'
c='\">'
a+='lto:'
b+='@'
e='</a>'
f=''
b+='provider.com'
g='<img src=\"'
h=''
i='\" alt="Email us." border="0">'
if(f)d=f
else if(h)d=g+h+i
else d=b
document.write(a+b+c+d+e)}escramble()
//--></script>
 
Jacamar said:
What is the best way to allow someone browsing my webpage to e-mail me? I am not interested in a bunch of spam, so I need an option that will not allow spammers to easily get ahold of my address.

Thanks,
You can get a free html code that is supposed to stop spamming - but I can't remember where from! If you use as you web editor Microsoft FrontPage you can get similar, again free, from "Jimco Addins" - do a Google to find the link. I use that on my website and have few spam problems.
 
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