Note to self: Anti-spam email encoding
August 27, 2007 3:27 am Readify, Visual StudioWhenever I see an email address published on a website and hover it with the mouse I start to shiver imagining the amount of spam that email will receive in a matter of days or weeks. On our BestGames website we forgot one of the email addresses un-encoded. In less than a month after opening we received our very first spam message. These days we receive about 20 a day on that email address. Lesson learned. No other email address was ever put un-encoded online.
When I want to encode my emails I generally browse and look for an online encoding site but none that I found so far are nice enough to help me build the full <a href=”mailto:….” mce_href=”mailto:….” />URL in one click.
So here it is: Enter your email address for a full email encode that will generate back a nice
August 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Ansolutely brilliant. Great idea!
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August 27th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Very cool
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September 25th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
This way the robot will detect the email-address if it is seaching for “% 40″-encoding and if it is seaching for “&# 64;”-encoding.
Try mixing it, and use some css:
email % 40 your
domain &# 46; com
^ without all the spaces]
September 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
The browser will display: email@yourdomain.com]
September 25th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Sorry I **** it up, it should be like this: (I will try without spaces this time)
email@your
domain.com]
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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