e-mail addresses end robots

[Luc]

Hello,

Is there a way to prevent robots from collecting the e-mail addresses on a
website?

Thanks

 

[brucie]

in post <Luc said:

Is there a way to prevent robots from collecting the e-mail addresses on a
website?

use a form (one that has your address as part of the script, not as a
hidden field in the form)

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Is there a way to prevent robots from collecting the e-mail addresses on a
website?

There are various ways to mask email addresses, but none of them are
perfect.

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

use a form (one that has your address as part of the script, not as a
hidden field in the form)

Be careful, some bots are starting to fill out those forms. You should
probably use a CAPTCHA.

 

[Cameron]

Be careful, some bots are starting to fill out those forms. You should
probably use a CAPTCHA.

It's kinda simple to make a PHP Anti spam image with a number users have
to enter into a form, if you know PHP that is

~Cameron

 

[Michael Wilcox]

Be careful, some bots are starting to fill out those forms. You should
probably use a CAPTCHA.

How do they know what to fill in? Would renaming the form elements to
something other than "email", "body", etc. help?

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Is there a way to prevent robots from collecting the e-mail
addresses on a website?

Remove the website. That's the only safe way. Apart from not telling
your visitors any e-mail addresses, that is.

In the end, if you let people e-mail you, it is inevitably possible for
automated programs to e-mail you too. Trying to fight against it by
obscuring your address or by not making it available comfortably is the
wrong way to fight against spam. Use a spam filter, and/or join anti-
spam communities, sue spammers, do whatever might make sense; address
hiding or mungind does not. (This includes your current probable use of
a forged e-mail address.)