Hello everyone,

Being a new member and all and just finding my way round this vast site i have a question, perhaps you can help me!!!

We've moved webspace and our CGI forms don't work so as a temporary measure i have just put mailto's in. Thing is lately we are getting a lot of junk mail, you know Viagra and alike, very tedious. Is there a way of hiding the @ in the mail to avoid our email being harvested?

Thanks

Simply leaving a gap in the email address or writing @ as (a) will fool email address spiders - and your customers.

There are a couple of things you can do, but none are effective as a submission form where your email address is not revealed at all.

If cgi is not available perhaps PHP is - it is even easier to set up a form with PHP. Try a google search for free scripts.

Another alternative that could work is dropping this in your code:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var name = "info";
var domain = "yourdomain.com";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');
document.write(name + '@' + domain + '</a>');
// -->
</script>

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