Protecting your email while supplying a contact

imported_James · 08-03-2006, 05:35 PM

I was reading an article about how to allow your users to get in touch with you and thought i'd bring up the matter. The easiest way to offer this is to just put your email address up in the footer of the webpage, but this is easy for bots to pick up and add you to spam lists.

This had lead to thinking about how we allow contact in our websites and methods with which to avoid getting on spam lists. Feel free to add/expand any.

- Disguised email address - For example admin@nospam-jibber.net
- Imagized @ - Using an image for the @ symbol instead of the character
- Imagized email - Using an image to display the whole email address
- Contact form - Use of a web-based form

x-termin8or · 08-03-2006, 05:38 PM

At the moment i use my e-mail in text because if i hardly get any spam anyway, but in the future i would probably use a simple contact form or an image.

Robb · 09-03-2006, 01:34 AM

on www.reddfoxx.info I use a contact form. much easier for people trying to contact you, they just type in on your site, and its done.

08-03-2006, 05:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
imported_James Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 350	Protecting your email while supplying a contact I was reading an article about how to allow your users to get in touch with you and thought i'd bring up the matter. The easiest way to offer this is to just put your email address up in the footer of the webpage, but this is easy for bots to pick up and add you to spam lists. This had lead to thinking about how we allow contact in our websites and methods with which to avoid getting on spam lists. Feel free to add/expand any. - Disguised email address - For example admin@nospam-jibber.net - Imagized @ - Using an image for the @ symbol instead of the character - Imagized email - Using an image to display the whole email address - Contact form - Use of a web-based form

08-03-2006, 05:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
x-termin8or Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 156	Protecting your email while supplying a contact At the moment i use my e-mail in text because if i hardly get any spam anyway, but in the future i would probably use a simple contact form or an image.

09-03-2006, 01:34 AM	#3 (permalink)
Robb Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 24	Protecting your email while supplying a contact on www.reddfoxx.info I use a contact form. much easier for people trying to contact you, they just type in on your site, and its done.

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