gHacks technology news » hiding emails http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hiding Email Addresses http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/22/hiding-email-addresses/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/22/hiding-email-addresses/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:43:07 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=332 Sarven Capadisli compiled a huge list of mechanisms to hide the email address to counter those robots. Most can only be used if you have certain rights on the website for example number seven uses javascript to hide the email address and this is normally not active for site users.]]> It´s a well know fact that some spammers use automated scripts that scan websites for email addresses and include them in their list of email addresses that will be spammed. Sarven Capadisli compiled a huge list of mechanisms to hide the email address to counter those robots. Most can only be used if you have certain rights on the website for example number seven uses javascript to hide the email address and this is normally not active for site users.

Some tips nevertheless are really easy to adopt, for instance adding REMOVETHIS to the email address which would look like admin@REMOVETHISghacks.net. Most bots have problems with these and its unlikely that someone checks the collected emails manually.

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