1. Dan Pitman at 5:39pm on March 22, 2006

Hey Jesse,

When I was doing work on the Thrivecanada website, they asked me about reducing spam (as they need to have their email addresses on the site).

I found that if you use ascii code in place of the @ symbol, it seems to trick the spambots searching for addresses, but still works in a "mailto" link.

ie: <a href="mailto:danpitman&#64;hotmail.com">

2. Jesse Skinner at 6:54pm on March 22, 2006

That's great, Dan. Though I wonder how long before they adapt the bots to factor this in...

It's become painfully impossible to distinguish between bots and humans.. besides using a CAPTCHA, I suppose. I think I'd rather deal with spam myself rather than put the work on my visitors. For now, anyway. Ask me in a few months...

3. espd at 10:43pm on March 24, 2006

Use the Enkoder. It works great. Encodes an email address so bots can't recognize it.

http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform

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