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Stop Spiders and Robots From Stealing Your Email Address
Spammers and those who sell to them have developed sophisticated mailbots (robots or spiders) that crawl Web Sites and Directories looking for links to unsuspecting email addresses. These bots collect the addresses. Spammers then use the mined addresses to peddle their mlm, pyramid schemes, scams, porn sites, and more. The best way to defend against this practice is to scramble your email address when you post it on your website.
Below is a simple script that will create and display your email address without making it usable to a web-bot. Make sure you replace the two variables with the characters that appear to the left and right of the @ in your email address.
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
leftside = "replace this with the text that appears on the leftside of the @";
rightside = "replace this with the text that appears on the rightside of the @";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + leftside + '@' + rightside + '\">');
document.write(leftside + '@' + rightside + '</a>');
// End -->
</script>
Place the script into a web page & the result will be a line like this; yourname@domain.com
Need More Help? You can download Anti-Spam Script Maker, a great little program, that will create a similar script. There is also another one to download that creates an email button in PNG or JPG format. Done correctly the graphic style is 100% resistant to robots. But, it requires the user to type in your email address. Not very convenient but SPAM free. These two programs are from A. Madeira. You can also visit his website for additional information and BB chat style support.
Parting Thoughts: The bad news is, given time, spammer's robots may learn to adapt to some of these and similar tricks.
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