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    Posted: 19 November 2004 at 11:51pm

Below is a link that will obfuscate your email address or in better terms encode your email address so that it makes it more difficult for spam bots to harvest them. Very useful when posting on forums.

Email Obfuscate : http://www.vebro.net/obfuscate.asp

 

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lol that reminds me of a page where someone gave a hundred fake hotmail addresses to spam bots.
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why does it? It just obfuscates your email from what I can see
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All it does is url encode the mail address. Spambots are smart enough to search for "%40" as well as @ . Some similar pages also encode the "mailto".

Url encoding helps for some weak spambots. Best method is still to either use a form with the email address either scripted or pulled from a db. If you do need to display an email address, use a gif/jpg.


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Or use a JS that displays it.
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Yeah not a 100% fool proof, but does deter some spam bots.

 

 

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not bad, you can't do a mailto link with that though.
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