Posts tagged ‘email’

Obfuscating email addresses, revisited

Posted Sunday, February 1st, 2009.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags email, How-to, JavaScript, MooTools, progressive enhancement, standards, web design and development

A while back, I posted my method for defeating spambots that harvest email addresses. This post is an update to that original method. It explores cleaner, less obtrusive code approaches and more accessible/usable HTML markup.

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Email address obfuscation

Posted Wednesday, June 13th, 2007.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags email, How-to, JavaScript, progressive enhancement, standards, web design and development

Everyone knows the story: an innocent email address is posted online and a big bad spambot finds it, relaying it to every spammer on the face of the earth… the email address becomes useless due to the 500 spam emails you get every day!

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