 Quick Question re spammers and websites |
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| ZosoPlayer |
 Jan 8 2007, 12:41 PM
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I have read that many spammers get their email addresses by automatically searching websites. Are they searching through the source code of the web or just graphically?
I ask because on my site, to get my email address, you need to press a button and then a drop down menu of sorts appears with my email address. It is hidden from the 'front-end' until the button is clicked, but is obviously plain to see in my page source. Thanks |
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| Christian J |
Jan 8 2007, 12:52 PM
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Most likely spammers' harvesting bots search through the source code, so hiding an email address the way you describe may not help. A safer way might be to "encrypt" it with javascript (or HTML entities?), or display the address as an image, but such tricks may cause trouble for some human users too.
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| ZosoPlayer |
Jan 8 2007, 12:56 PM
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QUOTE(Christian J @ Jan 8 2007, 01:52 PM)  Most likely spammers' harvesting bots search through the source code, so hiding an email address the way you describe may not help. A safer way might be to "encrypt" it with javascript (or HTML entities?), or display the address as an image, but such tricks may cause trouble for some human users too. Hmm, that is what i was afraid of. I will look into different 'encrypt' options. Thanks again. Best |
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