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What do you think would be the preferred method of posting email addresses on a website? Thinking about preventing spam here

- plain.. [email protected]
- modified sonneveld_at_hotmail.com
- remove this messages [email protected]
- or a form, where the site posts the message for you (but you can't access the address)

just interested..

- Nick

I got so much junk mail, that I had to put up a filter to block nearly everything! Yet still, I get about 20-30 a day on my hotmail account. I honestly have given up on it, and just started putting my address back up normally. If I could find the spammers in person, my python pipes would teach them a lesson. However, I'll never be able to track them all down, so grrrrr to them.

I hope that those laws against spam are passed. Though they would never fully stop it, it'll get me some justice. If not, I'll have to get myself a Batman costume and become a vigilante, jumping from roof to roof tracking them down! hehe.

There are dang programs which search the web like Google obtaining email addresses to junk us up. Let's face it though. Hotmail is to blame too. I decided to get rid of my bri_da_man@ and get a new one to free myself of junk mail. I made sure to uncheck all the boxes and everything so I'd get no junk. I didn't tell anyone my new address. I went back the next day to set things up, and already had 12 new junk messages, including the damn porn junk! It ticks me right off! I made sure not to check the boxes that share my address or anything! So, I stuck with the original. I think it's to force us to pay for accounts, heh.

Spam--my biggest pet peeve!

I say use a form, it is very easy to impliment and if you want it done in php, I can help you with it(I know exactly how to do it because I have my agi game uploader email me when a new game is uploaded.)

The form sounds like the best option... it's possible to set the "reply-to" headers 'n everything right?

The only problem I can think of is that the user doesn't get the email address straight off. You have to get a reply from the person you're sending it to before you actually find out the address.

The other options only vaguely encrypt the email address though.. it's possible that eventually scripts would be smart enough to parse it into a proper email.

And Brian, I hear you.. I hate spam.

- Nick

it got to the point i get soo much spam, i try not to print my mega-tokyo.com sites, but put my old hotmail account in them, and thats set to delete everythong that is not an address in my address book.

if people want to send me email, they know how to contact me...

I just have 2 email accounts, a personal one and a public one that I post all over my site. You can use javascript and "paste" the email address to gether when someone clicks on it(using it with mailto:).

K.J.

That still means that the person reading the site will be able to access the email address. A program "harvesting" emails could parse the javascript to find the address. if not now, probably later on.

If you send mails via a form using just an id number (where the actual address is read from a db) then they wouldn't be able to abuse it. Of course, you'd have to add other protections like cookies or some sort of ip log to prevent people from spamming everybody. (ie, only 5 emails every 5 minutes)

- Nick