Alternative to encrypt MailTo Link

[Voodoo1967]

I was just playing around with my contact mail form on my asp.net site and I thought about one of my basic static html sites and that I use mailto links for the contact pages. This particular site is a Chicago Rock & Blues band site www.timingiseverything.info and I'm not going to use a contact mail form for this site, but I wanted to give the site owner more privacy from email spambots. I edit this site in Dreamweaver MX and there are some plugins to encrypt the MailTo link, but I'm just not happy with that approach so I figured out something that never dawned on me before. In Dreamweaver on the insert menu there is a choice in the dropdown for interactive images --> Flash Text. This is in my opinion the best way to avoid email spambots as I don't believe they can follow a flash link. Am I right? Has anybody else used this approach?
Voo

[Jeff Colburn]

Hi,

It will be true for a while. I just heard that spiders can now read the new version of Flash. So I'm sure that spambots aren't far behind.

Have Fun,
Jeff

[AlexDP]

Apparently Google can now index Flash - the other bots will follow - http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=30764.

I use javascript and unicode to hide my e-mail addresses:

<!--
/*
Guinea Pigs World
This credit must stay intact
For this script and more
visit java-scripts.net 
or http://wsabstract.com
Script changed and added to by Alex Pimm (http://www.pimms-pages.co.uk).
for Spam Prevention tips see this forum
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=26037 and
http://www.pinnacledisplays.com/unicode-converter.htm
*/ 

var name = "name"
var domain = "domain.co.uk"
document.write("<a href='mailto:" + name + "@" + domain + "?subject=E-mail From Website" + "'>")
document.write(name + "@" + domain)
document.write("</a>")
//-->

*** The unicode characters aren't being displayed in this post but you can use above address to create them. ***

Alex

[morpheus.100]

Wel you could use GD to print mail addresses to a dynamic image, or just use an email handling script. You could use the GD option and make this in about 4 lines or create a small email ap in about 10 lines of code. Both are easy.

[ozchris]

I use http://siteup.com/encoder.html on all my sites to encode my email addresses.

[jordanmcclements]

Not very long ago I changed all the 'mailto:' tags to a piece of javascript that could not easily be read by spam bots.

See www.cfs-law.com/career.html for an example.

I was feeling very pleased with myself, UNTIL I realized (I think) that I am discriminating against visually impared people and could be sued!

Does anyone know of a really good, foolproof way to get round this?

If the solution is not 100% usable through the Lynx browser etc then I think I will have to go back to using the 'mailto:' tag...

[jordanmcclements]

Further (brief) info :-

http://cap.umn.edu/ait/web/MailtoLinks.html

Further (not so brief info):-

www.webcredible.co.uk

[Mac 5]

Read this forum on the same subject of hiding e-mail.
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic...ghlight=script

Voodoo1967 WPW has stopped accepting html tags in signatures. You can update by pressing edit profile button on top of page. Rewrite your tags in BB Code (press BB Code for more info on how to). In Preferences- Always allow BBCode: Yes.

[jordanmcclements]

Thanks for the reply.