[Novalug] Avoiding Email Address Skimming from Web Sites (OT, ?)

[Roger W. Broseus]

During Ted's presentation on his album manager, brief mention was made 
of not including email addresses on web sites to avoid spam associated 
with the skimming of email addresses from web sites - evidently by means 
of looking for instances of

   <a href="mailto:

tags. There are many way to do this, e.g., through use of images with 
the address appearing therein, use of addresses like

    fred dot jones AT somedomain dot com

These approaches require a bit of decoding by the user of the site. In 
addition to the use of forms to capture requests and do email "behind 
the scenes," one can effect a mailto request using simple java scripts 
(that even I can use!).

An example is posted at

    http://www.bronord.com/emailscripts.html

/roger

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