Right way to show email -addresses
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:12 am
Hopefully this is right section for this one. I think it's in some way security matter.
've been developing portal for gaming community. As email is probably the best way to contact people in these circles (along with IRC), it's important for people to share their email addresses. The problem is, how to display email addresses in the page? Okay, I know format "username [at] domain [dot] exp" would be secure one, when it comes to spam bots. But this isn't for my eye, and definitely not for random user's eye the best solution. Is there any other way to fight against spam bots? And is it really so that spam bots can't simply convert [at] to @ and [dot] to ., as it's so easy to do for example in PHP?
Couple years ago, when I was starting my coding "career" I found some Javascript code from the internet, where email address was generated by function, like printing "adf" + ".em" + "ail" + "@" + "dom" + "ain" + ".com". If PHP would slice the address, and pass it to JS function, will it help? Does this kind of solution make any sense? Does it help anything?
Is just showing address as text better option than using mailto -link?
Of course users are allowed to hide their email, but can I anyhow fight against these spam bots with those users willing to share their email addrresses? Please share any comments/thoughts.
've been developing portal for gaming community. As email is probably the best way to contact people in these circles (along with IRC), it's important for people to share their email addresses. The problem is, how to display email addresses in the page? Okay, I know format "username [at] domain [dot] exp" would be secure one, when it comes to spam bots. But this isn't for my eye, and definitely not for random user's eye the best solution. Is there any other way to fight against spam bots? And is it really so that spam bots can't simply convert [at] to @ and [dot] to ., as it's so easy to do for example in PHP?
Couple years ago, when I was starting my coding "career" I found some Javascript code from the internet, where email address was generated by function, like printing "adf" + ".em" + "ail" + "@" + "dom" + "ain" + ".com". If PHP would slice the address, and pass it to JS function, will it help? Does this kind of solution make any sense? Does it help anything?
Is just showing address as text better option than using mailto -link?
Of course users are allowed to hide their email, but can I anyhow fight against these spam bots with those users willing to share their email addrresses? Please share any comments/thoughts.