When creating a website with a email link, I note the page source has the
actual email address, which is obviously easy to pickup. Is this ok? ie,
should one to munge the address as we do on newservers? Obviously I can
place some javascript like var='cmurthi+ '@' + 'etc'. and use that. Is this
overkill?

Thanks,

Chandru Murthi

murthi wrote:

I notice that a lot of websites no longer have e-mail links, but rather
question/feedback submission forms.

A munged address in an e-mail link on a webpage "might" confuse some
less technical people.


--
Kevin Powick

There's plenty of on-line utilities to make an email which looks
normal, works when clicked, yet is using javascript to make it more
difficult to be harvested. For example the source of my email on my
website (http://www.radiolistings.co.uk) is:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write ('<a href="mai&#1')
document.write
('08;to:radiolistings')
document.write ('@')
document.write ('gmail')
document.write ('.')
document.write ('com">')
document.write
('radiolistings@gmail.com<\/a>')
// -->
</script>

murthi wrote:
It's a good idea, actually. I've got a mailto link on my personal
web site, and it has been passed around like a joint at a Grateful
Dead concert. Assuming the email link on your website is for an
address in your domain, you should make it a unique email addy that
you don't give out anywhere else. This will allow you to route it
via a mail rule when you get mail at that address. I've been giving
out various email addresses to on-line merchants and the like for
years now, which allows you to see who sells what to whom.

--
frosty

Chandru, more info on this topic is here:
<http:// REM0VEjohnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/obfuscate_mailto/>
You can use this site to produce script from addresses, and there is
ASP and PHP code for you to use on your own site. It's simply
copy/paste in place of a full address and gets the job done. No
overkill at all IMO.

HTH
T

"murthi" wrote:

"frosty" wrote:

A agree with this but only if you have a way to specifically trash old
addresses without having them show up in your catchall mail.
Publishing real addresses leads to mail hitting your domain, and THATs
the problem, the problem isn't whether you actually read the mail or
not. This is why I'm so protective of my removethisNeb.... address.

I do this all the time with sneakemail.com addresses. Again, it's
important that people don't hit your real business domain. It's a
free service but is extended with a small yearly sub to help out the
guy who supports the site. I recommend this service HIGHLY. You can
delete the addresses that have been compromised, use different ones
for mailing lists, contests, and those occasional people you aren't
sure you can trust. Really great stuff.

T

Thanks to everyone. Am now motivated to do something, not sure what yet...

Chandru
"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote