Re: Spam Bots/E-mail Addys

So basically, to keep the address away from bots, keep it away from normal users. Okay, so something like this would be more effective: Have a form with a hidden input of the user's alias, and an input of "E- mail me!", that form posts to an email.php script that uses the user's alias to pull the e-mail address out of the db and I suppose I could use JavaScript to popup a new window to enter the text of the e-mail and use mail() to send. Would displaying the e-mail address in that new window again be just as bad as displaying it on the main page? I realize this isn't a new idea, but I'm assuming it's more secure than just keeping a mailto:user@host.com link around. Thanks, Jason Soza ----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Dallas <stuart@sharedserver.net> Date: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:23 am Subject: Re: [PHP] Spam Bots/E-mail Addys > Basic fact: If a normal (anonymous) visitor can get at the email > addresses, so > can a bot. It all depends on the bot, but there's no getting > around that basic > fact. > > -- > Stuart