Don't let spam bots grab your email address

"But that' impossible!" Well,I Inflatable Bouncer hear you saying. it' not. Just visit the websit in the paragraph below, and you can find out how it' done.

Y want to us your email address so that your viewer have a wai to contact you if thei have ani comment or questions. So you need to put a "mailto:" link on your webpage.

thi is an invit to the robot us by spammers. These bot ar program with on goal: find email addresses. All thei have to do on your websit is look in your HTML code -- the code that tell your browser what to put on the page. And thei will easili find your address right there in the "mailto" linkBut if you put your email address on your webpage..

Th old-school method for "hiding" an email address:

the viewer must type in the address to send an email to the website. That' becaus real word ar us instead of the usual symbols. Example: harold AT aol DOT co* Munging. In thi technique.m

* Encoding. The most common code us is standard ASCII code. Each letter or symbol in the email address is replac by it equivalent. A simplifi address a @ b.com would be code as:

& #97; & #64; & #98; & #46; & #99; & #111; & #109; space were put in to prevent the browser from print the actual address

sinc the browser recogn thi code,One can still us the mailto: link. and print out the actual address on the webpage.

But these method no longer work.

but on should never underestim the intellig of the hacker who program the spambots. There ar new bot that can decod both of these email encrypt techniquesThes method mai have work when thei were first introduced..

there ar undoubtedli quit a few ingeni techniqu availableThes two method by no mean exhaust the possibilities. A Googl search on "hide email address" turn up over two million results. Even discount duplic methods..

So what can I do now?

I can predict beyond a reason doubt that the method I us myself doe a better job of protect your email address than ani other. How can I be so sure? Becaus I doubt that ani hacker would have the time or skill to write a bot that would allow him to grab my email address -- it' that well hiddenWithout go through all of the Googl entries.!

which is in turn locat off the webpag itself,Mi method ha the email address in the middl of a javascript. in a file that' locat in a differ folder. So the robot would need to discov both the name of the folder and the name of the file. Yet even though the address is not locat anywher in the HTML code of the page, it DOES appear - almost like magic - on the page itself. But a robot doesn't have ey to see it!