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farfromrest
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mail link in differnt form

Post by farfromrest »

im make this copy of a site for my boss and the person how did it does all the mail links like
mailto:%70%72%6F%70%65%72%74%69%65%73%40%72%61%79%73%79%73%74%65%6D%2E%63%6F%6D
now i cant remember what that is called, but i know what its doing, but is there any reason for doing a mail link like this?

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kettle_drum
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Post by kettle_drum »

Not really, im sure spam bots can read email addresses in hex form.
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no_memories
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Post by no_memories »

There is one way to keep spam bots from reading anything. But it also keeps various web crawlers out of your site. There is a file in your root directory called robots.txt and it contains permissions for all or parts of your site.

robots.txt
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