In the wonderful world of spam, there are programs that surf the web looking for email addresses. (so I've been told. Can't say I've met one yet)
When looking round blogs, I seen a few tricks by people to protect their inbox from spam with tricks like this:
- someone [at] somewhere [dot] com
- someone [you know what goes here] somewhere.com
- Have a form (with or with out captcha) to send the email, thus not showing the address in plain text at all
One attempt that I saw, that I liked was this:
- djohnsmarie@gmail.com
Now, you're seeing my email right?
If you did a view source, you would see this:
djohnsmarie@gmail.com
While that doesn't look like an email, the visitors to my site will see me email.
This is the HTML coded version of an ASCII character.
The question I have is:
Does that actually fool a Find-and-record-emails-Spam-bot?
While I'd like to *think* it does, does anyone *know* if my attempt at protecting my email inbox will work, or if that attempt is futile?
(Even if it doesn't, at worst I'll be giving GMail's spam filtering a bit more of a work out!)
In case you are interested, the CF Code to generate that is (taken from my CFEclipse ScribblePad):
<cfset email = "[email address here]">
<p>
<cfloop from="1" to="#len(email)#" index="iCount"><cfoutput>&###asc( mid(email, iCount, 1) )#;</cfoutput></cfloop>
</p>
