Re: Email Antispam

"Ross McKay" <rosko@zeta.org.au> wrote in message news:b4vro79ftp9423k74bnj41o1o9e3dk9ebc@4ax.com... > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:04:19 -0400, David Mehler wrote: > >>I'm working on a site that has email addresses on it. I am not wanting >>to use mailto links so as to avoid spam harvesters, I'd like another >>solution so that mailto links would work but would not work with >>spammers. I've tried several javascript-based solutions, but am not >>able to get them to be consistent. It seems like once they're used >>they revert to coded links. If anyone has any solutions I'd appreciate >>it. I'm not sure I can do this in php, generate email addresses >>dynamically then pass them to the client, it would be the same as the >>spammer hitting the page. I'd prefer something self-hosted and >>preferably light on the resources. > > I don't like this sort of thing, but I have a client who needs it. What > I did for them was to put the email address on the page encoded with > base64, and use client-side script to decode it. i.e. the encoded data > is replaced with the decoded data, once on page load. Hook up the decode > function on the browser-side to your page load scripts. No jQuery > required :) > > https://gist.github.com/2409958 > -- > Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia > "All we are saying > Is give peas a chance" - SeedSavers So - does that mean you building the site from information contained in a database?